Sentences with phrase «tax credit cuts»

Another option would be to slow and phase in tax credit cuts in line with increases in the national living wage and personal allowance.

He has backed off flagship policies like tax credit cuts.

Despite the government's much trumpeted U-turn on tax credit cuts in October, reductions to universal credit (UC) work allowances announced in the summer budget and the autumn statement will see working families with children lose on average # 1,300 a year, and as much as # 3,000 in 2020, according to the Resolution Foundation.

A power struggle between the House of Commons and the House of Lords is underway after a motion to delay # 4.4 billion of tax credit cuts while an impact assessment is carried out was voted in on Monday.

Following the House of Lords» refusal to allow the government to enact secondary legislation during the row over tax credits cuts last year, the government set up the Strathclyde Review, which suggested reforms which could alter the balance between the government and the two houses of parliament.

«Rapid review» sought after peers vote to delay tax credit cuts until compensation scheme for low - paid workers is worked out

On the question of stopping child tax credit cuts, Harman is encouraging Labour MPs to abstain - but a lot of them want to vote against.

Corbyn had begun by again asking about tax credit cuts.

He implied the policy would cost the Tories at next year's election, as 260,000 families hit by tax credit cuts live in the 50 most vulnerable Conservative seats.

Both mechanisms were involved in the scuppering of George Osborne's proposed tax credit cuts last year.

Commons Speaker John Bercow has insisted that the House of Lords were acting within their rights when they voted for a motion to delay # 4.4 billion of tax credit cuts while an impact assessment is carried out.

The work and pensions secretary also lashed out at London Mayor Boris Johnson for his recent criticism of proposed tax credit cuts.

George Osborne is facing fresh opposition to his controversial tax credit cuts from within the...

A «rapid review» into the structure of the House of Lords has been ordered by the government following a vote in the House which defeated planned tax credit cuts.

David Cameron is planning to set limits on the power of the House of Lords after George Osborne suffered a major blow to his authority when peers voted to delay tax credit cuts in order to protect those who would lose out.

George Osborne is facing fresh opposition to his controversial tax credit cuts from within the Conservative party.

Another central plank of Farron's legacy was his campaigning for social justice — again he fought an effective campaign against tax credit cuts while Labour dithered in the House of Lords and didn't back a Lib Dem fatal motion on the issue.

And in a reflection of mounting public anger, a host of Tories who voted for tax credit cuts only last month claimed they now want the blow softened.

In the aftermath of the Lords defeats on tax credit cuts there has been much talk of a «constitutional crisis».

«For all the claims for its revolutionising powers, the cuts to universal credit will actually hit working families» budgets as hard as the now abandoned tax credit cuts would have.

Tory tax credit cuts mean 3m families on average losing # 1300 a yr.

Mr Corbyn asked the Prime Minister six times to guarantee working families would not be worse off as a result of tax credit cuts as the pair clashed during a heated Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday.

The UK chancellor has dug a big hole for himself over tax credit cuts with room to manoeuvre limited by the worsening deficit.

Hardman calls out Tory MPs for «roaring and jeering» as Corbyn was asking tax credit cuts.

Lib Dems defiant ahead of Lords showdown over tax credits Tax credit cuts «signalled before the election» - George Osborne Nicky Morgan hints at tax credits climbdown

John McDonnell was showing why cutting tax credit cuts was wrong.

There's been scandal - the suspension of MP Michelle Thomson over allegations about property deals, the award of a # 150,000 government grant to the organisers of the profitable T in the Park music festival after a meeting brokered by a former SNP adviser - and there's been political ineptitude, most notably when the nationalists were put on the back foot by a Labour pledge to use Holyrood's powers to overturn tax credit cuts.

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Tax credit cuts threatened people in work, rather than just the demonised unemployed.

Welsh Conservative leader Andrew RT Davies has urged the Chancellor to phase in working tax credit cuts more slowly

A working mum who would be hit by Tax Credit cuts spoke to ITV News ahead of the House of Lords vote on the changes.

The House of Lords vote to block tax credit cuts creates a «big constitutional issue», leader of House of Commons Chris Grayling has said.

The government's flagship welfare scheme is full of hidden nasties - self - employed people could lose out under the minimum income floor, cuts to the work allowance have already bitten, and then there's George Osborne's infamous tax credit cuts.

The Labour leader used the clash to push the prime minister on whether tax credit cuts would leave anyone worse off next year.

On Smith's watch, the government has been forced into U-turn on a number of hated reforms, including tax credit cuts, Personal Independence Payment cuts and scrapping the measurement of child poverty.

Harriet Harman's announcement on the Sunday politics yesterday, that Labour would not be voting against the welfare bill, nor would they oppose child tax credit cuts or the Tories new benefits cap, has rightly drawn condemnation from different sections of the Party, and now both Yvette Cooper and Andy Burnham have joined Jeremy Corbyn (who -LSB-...]

David Cameron was accused of lying about tax credit cuts to win the general election as the House of Lords debated the controversial reforms.

Corbyn challenged Cameron over tax credit cuts and affordable housing as the two leaders clashed for the second time at PMQs.

As George Osborne faced a backlash last year over his planned tax credit cuts, Mercer urged the chancellor to find «something, anything that might mitigate the harshest effects of this policy on our most vulnerable».

Echoing George Osborne in the Commons yesterday, the prime minister fended off the attacks on tax credit cuts by arguing that the UK must move towards a «high pay, low tax, low welfare economy».

A working mum who would be hit by Tax Credit cuts has spoken to ITV News about how her family would be affected - ahead of the House of Lords vote on motions that could delay or scrap the changes.

In devising and costing its tax credit reform and amendments to it, the Treasury must have crunched at least some of the numbers around flows of people on and off tax credits, just as they must have the analysis that we and the Treasury Committee have asked for of the true picture of the net impact of the proposed tax credit cuts.

But it was Tory tax credit cuts that provided the most fertile ground for Malhotra...

George Osborne is preparing to retreat on his controversial tax credit cuts, says Jon Craig in his...

The Meacher amendment delaying the implementation of tax credit cuts has been passed by 307 votes to 277 - a majority of 30.

The Prime Minister is dropping proposals drawn up after peers blocked George Osborne's tax credit cuts last year

The Government suffered a defeat in the House of Lords on Monday, when a motion to delay # 4.4 billion of tax credit cuts while an impact assessment is carried out was passed.

He told me in a Sky News interview after the vote the tax credits cuts are «bad politics» and he's convinced Osborne will announce some «tweaking» in his autumn statement on November 25.

What mattered was the succession of Tory MPs who rose during the debate and called for some compassionate Conservatism and some changes to the tax credit cuts.