division_name: Opposition Day &#8212; [9th Allotted Day] &#8212; Income Tax
motion: <p class="" pid="a.844.2/1" pwmotiontext="yes">I beg to move,</p>
  
  <p class="" pid="a.844.2/2" pwmotiontext="yes">That this House believes it is a mistake to reduce the top rate of income tax at a time when working people, who are on average &#163;1,600 a year worse off since 2010, are not feeling the recovery and while the deficit also remains high; notes that figures from the Institute for Fiscal Studies show that, by next year, households will be on average &#163;974 a year worse off because of tax and benefit changes since 2010; believes that a fair plan to balance the books would reverse the cut in the top rate of income tax, which is worth &#163;3 billion a year for the top one per cent of earners, for the next Parliament, and introduce a lower 10p starting rate of tax; and calls on the Government to rule out a further reduction in the top rate of income tax on earnings over &#163;150,000 a year.</p>
  
  <p class="italic" pid="a.885.1/1" pwmotiontext="yes">Question put.</p>
  
  <p class="italic" pid="a.885.1/2" pwmotiontext="yes">The House divided:</p>
  
  <p pid="a.885.1/3" pwmotiontext="yes">Ayes 248, Noes 287.</p>