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Pensioners: Income Tax

Asked by Ann DaviesPlaid CymruTreasuryTabled Answered 13 November 2025UIN 89111

The question

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment she has made of the impact of frozen personal tax thresholds on pensioners’ disposable incomes.

Answered by Torsten Bell

The previous government made the decision to freeze the income tax Personal Allowance at its current level of £12,570 until April The previous government published a Tax Information and Impact Note (TIIN) setting out the impacts.

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