Member

Both these sectors provide vital services. They are critical partners to government and in turn reduce pressure and save costs for organisations such as the National Health Service and the police, to name just two services that are supported. Tax reliefs for charities will not be sufficient to cover this shortfall. National insurance contributions and any changes to them, given some of the previous arguments, are making things even more anomalous, but let us all be honest with ourselves: for anyone who has ever looked into them, NICs have always been an anomalous form of taxation. I ask the Government to think again on charities and housing associations.