Chamber
Plenary, 22 Mar 2007
22 Mar 2007 · S2 · Plenary
Item of business
First Minister's Question Time
Budget
Does the First Minister realise that, as a result of Gordon Brown's budget yesterday, low-paid workers earning only £7,500 a year will see their income tax bill rise from £232 to £416 a year, which is an increase of 78 per cent, while Gordon Brown, earning more than £130,000 a year, will see his tax bill go down by 5 per cent? Is that what Labour is about: robbing the poor to pay the rich?
In the same item of business
4. Margaret Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun) (Lab):
Lab
To ask the First Minister what impact the Chancellor of the Exchequer's budget will have on Scotland. (S2F-2794)
The First Minister (Mr Jack McConnell):
Lab
The budget is, of course, set against a backdrop of unprecedented economic prosperity in Scotland and the UK. We have a record number of Scots in work, a his...
Margaret Jamieson:
Lab
I thank the First Minister for his reply.Yesterday's budget provides the lowest basic rate of income tax in 75 years, which of course will be of benefit to m...
The First Minister:
Lab
I should make clear that my Liberal Democrat coalition partners would take a different approach on this issue. Having made that clear, I am delighted to defe...
Alex Neil (Central Scotland) (SNP):
SNP
Does the First Minister realise that, as a result of Gordon Brown's budget yesterday, low-paid workers earning only £7,500 a year will see their income tax b...
The First Minister:
Lab
The only robbing going on in the chamber at the moment is the robbing of statistics by the SNP and, of course, the deception that it tries to pull on the peo...