Letter from the Chairman of the Committee
to the Chancellor of the Exchequer
DISTRIBUTIONAL EFFECTS OF THE CSR
I wrote to you on 31 August to ask you to reconsider
your earlier reluctance to model the impact of measures in the
Budget statement on different households. Since then there has
been an Urgent Question in the House on proposed public expenditure,
during which I asked whether in the comprehensive spending review
you would publish a full analysis of all the measures in aggregate,
decile by decile.
I am writing to re-iterate the importance the
Committee attaches to its recommendation on this matter, namely
that "the Treasury builds on the approach taken in the Budget
to give information about the impact of CSR changes on different
households. We would like the analysis for both the CSR and future
Budgets to take two forms: a narrowly drawn set of figures based
on those measures most easily modelled and a wider analysis, using
more assumptions, which would allow a fuller set of measures to
be included."
21 September 2010
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