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Income: Equality

Asked by Danny KrugerReform UKDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled Answered 10 December 2024UIN 17268

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department (a) made and (b) has since made an assessment of the potential impact of Autumn Budget 2024 on trends in the level of income inequality.

Answered by Alison McGovern

HM Treasury have published distributional analysis showing the estimated impact of tax, welfare and public service spending decisions on household incomes, across the household income distribution. This can be found here Impact_on_households.pdf (publishing.service.gov.uk)

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