Claire Perry welcomes a Budget for Growth, Jobs and Families

Claire Perry, MP for the Devizes Constituency, welcomed the Government's Budget which will reform the economy to support jobs and growth and help families with the cost of living – including an immediate cut in fuel duty.

Key measures in the Budget to boost growth include:

• Tax cuts for businesses and entrepreneurs
• Scrapping burdensome regulations and red tape
• Radical reform of the planning system
• New investment in science and innovation
• Lots more real support for young people with additional apprenticeships and work experience

To help families facing the rising cost of living, the Budget also will:

• Immediately cut fuel duty by 1 pence per litre and delay April's inflation rise in duty to next January. This means fuel duty will be 6 pence less by the end of next week than it would have been under Labour.
• Introduce a Fair Fuel Stabiliser that taxes oil companies more to stop rises in fuel duty
• Increase the Personal Allowance from by a further £630 from April 2012. That's another real increase of £48 extra per year, or £126 in cash terms. Together with this year's rise, that means a total of £326 extra each year for those working hard to support their families. And it means, just ten months into office, this Coalition Government has taken 1.1 million low paid people out of tax altogether.

Welcoming the Budget, Claire Perry MP said:

"Last year's Emergency Budget brought Britain back from the brink of bankruptcy. The Government is right to stick to the plan to get Britain living within her means and this year's Budget sets out plans to back enterprise and get Britain making things again. By cutting fuel duty immediately and cutting income tax for millions, the Chancellor has done what he can to help families now. This Budget has put fuel into the tank of our economy."

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