asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what proposals he has to reduce the tax burden on widows.

All widows liable to tax are benefiting from the general reductions in person taxation my right hon. Friend the Chancellor has been able to make this year.In adddition, as my right hon. Friend the Chief Secretary to the Treasury has announced, we propose from April 1979 to exempt from tax the child dependency additions paid to widows and other social security beneficiaries. This exemption will more than offset the withdrawal of child tax allowances.