Budget VAT on fuel reaction

Title

Budget VAT on fuel reaction

Genre

News report; Interview; Speech; Parliamentary debate

TX Date

18 Mar 1993

Year of production

1993

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Duration

00:03:19

Description

Political correspondent Kevin Murphy reports on concern over VAT being added to domestic fuel as announced in the Budget and its effects on pensioners and those less well off. Includes Commons speeches by shadow Chancellor Gordon Brown and in reply Chief Secretary to the Treasury Michael Portillo. Interviews with Environment Minister David Maclean; Labour environmental protection spokesman Chris Smith; Nicholas Winterton Tory MP; Tory MP Matthew Carrington; Prime Minister John Major speaking during the election campaign claiming VAT will not be raised, which Chancellor Norman Lamont defends; budget broadcast excerpt by Gordon Brown. Sound is in mono.

Contributors

Norman Lamont; Nicholas Winterton; John Major; Chris Smith; Michael Portillo; Gordon Brown; Matthew Carrington; Kevin Murphy; David MacLean

Keywords

Budgets; Social security; Taxation; Economics; Elderly; Fuels; National budgets; Value Added Tax; Pensioners (older people); Income support; Envoronment

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