Parliamentary Questions - Written Replies
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BUDGET: An employee earning pounds 13,000 a year would pay an extra pounds 1.94 a week in National Insurance contributions from April 1994 under this month's Budget proposals, Gwyneth Dunwoody (Lab, Crewe and Nantwich) was told.
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