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Productivity and enterprise in a flexible economy

High quality public services
Employment opportunity for all
Building a fairer society
Protecting the environment

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• Compared with last year, a single earner couple with two children, with earnings up to the median for full time workers – £24,000 per year – will be at least £70 a year better off in real terms.
  
  
• As a result of personal tax and benefit measures introduced since 1997, by October 2006, families with children are, on average, £1,500 a year better off in real terms, while those in the poorest fifth of the population are, on average, £3,400 a year better off. A single earner family with two children, on average male earnings of £31,600, is £235 a year better off in real terms.