To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will publish a consultative document outlining a range of different options for future income tax policies. [124658]

The Government sets out their policies on income tax rates and allowances in the Budget and pre-Budget reports.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will estimate the impact on the level of income tax of a transfer of all changes in the total level of taxation since 1997 to income tax. [124660]

As a result of personal tax and benefit reforms since 1997, households will be, on average £775 a year better off in real terms by October 2003.