The chancellor confirmed last Wednesday that the threshold will be raised from 50,000 to 60,000 and the taper will extend up to 80,000, lifting 170,000 families out of paying the charges altogether.
He said he shared a phone call with the chancellor on the morning of the Budget, but did not know there would be a change of threshold until he heard it in the budget.
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