me on to the personal allowance and the central goal of this budget which is to support working familiesp. this coalition government believes the best way to support working people on the lowest incomes is to take them out of tax all together. and the best way of getting money direct liz into the pockets of working families on middle incomes is to increase the amount of their earnings they can keep before they pay tax. that is why this government has set itself the goal of raising the personal taxpayer allowance to 10,000 pounds. we promise real increases every year to reach that. in my last two budgets, we have made great strides forward. last year the personal allowance rose by 1,000 pounds. in two weeks time it will go up to 8,105. these increases have taken over 1 million low paid people out of tax all together. today i want to go much further and much faster. i am announcing the largest ever increase in the personal allowance, that is the amount that people can earn tax free. from next april that amount will increase by 1,100 pounds. every working person on low or middle incomes will