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Q: Will you put up fuel duty next year? Your plans assume it will go up, but if it gets frozen again, as usually happens, then you have lost half of your fiscal headroom.
Hunt says this will be announced next year.
Q: Isn’t it a mistake to make plans on the basis of tax rises that will never happen?
Hunt insists that the freeze in the fuel duty rise is a temporary measure, not a permanent one.
23m ago10.36 EST
Q: What is going to happen about the HS2 station at Euston. Sir John Armitt, chair of the National Infrastructure Commission, says your plans to get the private sector to fund some of it won’t work.
Hunt says he thinks the project will attract private sector finance.
26m ago10.34 EST
Q: This is the worst parliament on record for growth in real household income, isn’t it?
Hunt says this parliament has had a once-in-a-century pandemic and an energy shock. The government will be judged by how it responded, he says.
Q: The Bank of England says there is a 50% chance of recession next year.
Last year they were saying we were facing a long recession, Hunt says.
29m ago10.31 EST
At the Treasury committee Angela Eagle (Lab) says she is concerned about the gap between rhetoric and reality in the autumn statement.
Q: Taxes are up, not down, aren’t they?
Jeremy Hunt says the Resolution Foundation described the tax cuts as the biggest since the…
2023-11-29 10:41:52
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