Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with health charities on the potential impact of increases in levels of employers' national insurance contributions on those charities.

Ministers and officials meet regularly with health and care charities to discuss a variety of issues.

To repair public finances and help raise the revenue required to increase funding for public services, the Government has taken the difficult decision to increase employer National Insurance. On the impact on charities in particular, our tax regime for charities, including exemption from paying business rates, is among the most generous of anywhere in the world, with tax reliefs for charities and their donors worth just over £6 billion for the tax year to April 2024.