Question follow-through · 53008
Economic Policy
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make it her policy to circulate to all Ministers holding economic portfolios the article published in The Times entitled Want to help the poor? Don’t chase out the rich, published on 16 May 2025.
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 19 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 22 May 2025
- Answer
- 22 May 2025 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
19 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make it her policy to circulate to all Ministers holding economic portfolios the article published in The Times entitled Want to help the poor? Don’t chase out the rich, published on 16 May 2025.
22 May 2025
Target answer date
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22 May 2025
Answer published
Successful businesses and entrepreneurs who create jobs and wealth are the driving engine of the Government’s mission to increase economic growth. We will support them to succeed whilst making those with wealth pay their fair share toward the public finan...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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Small Businesses: Taxation
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