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Mr. Field
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer how much the standard rate of tax would need to be raised to cover the abolition of the employee's national insurance contributions.
Mr. Peter Rees
[pursuant to his reply 25 March 1980, c. 516]: To about 39 per cent. at 1979–80 levels.