Mothers 'Should Get Tax Breaks to Boost Birth Rate'

Scotland on Sunday › February 13, 2006

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TAX breaks for mothers who have children should be considered to encourage more women to have babies, the government's senior adviser on pensions has claimed.

Lord Turner who, as head of the independent Pensions Commission, has warned of a looming population crisis, said ministers now needed to find ways of making it easier for women in Scotland to combine family and work.

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Mothers 'Should Get Tax Breaks to Boost Birth Rate'

European nations are experimenting with policies which seek to encourage women to have more children - such as in France, where mothers who want to have more than two...

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