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HANSARD Local Government ReorganisationI draw attention to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests. Residents of the Isle of Wight are expecting full elections this May. The no-overall-control unitary…15 Jan 2025HANSARDEngagementsQ11. My constituents on the Isle of Wight are entirely reliant on foreign-owned, debt-laden, unregulated ferry companies for essential travel, but public transport in the United…15 Jan 2025HANSARD Health and Social Care: Winter UpdateThe Secretary of State referred to social care in his update on winter pressures, and he is of course right that social care has an important role to play in taking pressure off…15 Jan 2025HANSARD Employer National Insurance Contributions: CharitiesI beg to move, That this House has considered the impact of changes to employers’ National Insurance contributions on the charity sector. The background to this debate is the…07 Jan 2025HANSARD Employer National Insurance Contributions: CharitiesI of course agree with the hon. Member that the Government must rethink the changes. I will go on to use examples from my own constituency, and I thank her for doing so with hers.07 Jan 2025HANSARD Employer National Insurance Contributions: CharitiesI will make a little progress and then I will be happy to give way. The National Council for Voluntary Organisations estimates that the overall cost of the money taken from…07 Jan 2025HANSARD Employer National Insurance Contributions: CharitiesI agree. Ultimately, the Government should exempt all charities from national insurance contribution rises. Another possibility, which would be much less beneficial, would be to…07 Jan 2025HANSARD Employer National Insurance Contributions: CharitiesI agree: of course it is ludicrous. This is charitable money—most of it is charitable donations—that is given to charities to provide valuable work, and the Treasury is taking it…07 Jan 2025HANSARD Employer National Insurance Contributions: CharitiesI will make a little progress and then come back to the hon. Gentleman. Most charities are suffering as they try to raise charitable funds, yet the Government have decided to take…07 Jan 2025HANSARD Employer National Insurance Contributions: CharitiesI give way to my right hon. Friend the Member for Beverley and Holderness (Graham Stuart).07 Jan 2025HANSARD Employer National Insurance Contributions: CharitiesI agree that the Minister needs to go back and do that. That is why I secured the debate. The chief executive of Crisis said: “Increasing employers’ National Insurance…07 Jan 2025HANSARD Employer National Insurance Contributions: CharitiesI agree, and the hon. Member perfectly illustrates the point that the Government’s stated aims are not backed up by their tax decisions. If the Government want better palliative…07 Jan 2025HANSARD Employer National Insurance Contributions: CharitiesI thank the Minister for coming here to address the arguments that have been made, particularly as they were about a set of decisions that were not made by her personally or by…07 Jan 2025HANSARD Employer National Insurance Contributions: CharitiesI agree with the hon. Member. Broadly speaking, Age UK operates as small charities in individual communities. Age UK in the Isle of Wight, where my constituency is, also faces…07 Jan 2025HANSARD Employer National Insurance Contributions: CharitiesI do agree. It looks like the Government do not understand that healthcare is delivered not only by the NHS, so when they chose to exempt the NHS from the damaging rises, they…07 Jan 2025HANSARD Employer National Insurance Contributions: CharitiesI will give some examples before I give way to my hon. Friend. The change will cost Marie Curie almost £3 million a year, and it says that without further support critical…07 Jan 2025HANSARD Employer National Insurance Contributions: CharitiesI agree. Putting pressure on other health providers and social care providers inevitably leads to pressure on the NHS. My hon. Friend hits the nail on the head in her comments and…07 Jan 2025HANSARD Employer National Insurance Contributions: CharitiesI agree, and would like to share the hon. Member’s optimism that the Government do intend to make improvements in this area. This debate is a second chance for them to go away,…07 Jan 2025HANSARD Employer National Insurance Contributions: CharitiesI agree, although I am perhaps a little more optimistic than the hon. Member. The Government might not make the promise today, but they have an opportunity to go away and provide…07 Jan 2025HANSARD Employer National Insurance Contributions: CharitiesI agree with both those points. Charities tell us that the change will be the straw that breaks the camel’s back for many. I know that because, immediately before entering…07 Jan 2025