VoteClimate: Sun Protection Products (Value Added Tax) - 21st February 2023

Sun Protection Products (Value Added Tax) - 21st February 2023

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate Sun Protection Products (Value Added Tax).

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2023-02-21/debates/5B2820AF-A773-477B-BB7C-945EF4F83443/SunProtectionProducts(ValueAddedTax)

14:42 Amy Callaghan (East Dunbartonshire) (SNP)

We are in not only a cost of living crisis but a climate crisis, which means that sun protection products are becoming less affordable but more necessary. I hope that, having raised this issue, the Minister will not only be sympathetic to my aims, but responsive. Knowing the importance of VAT burn yet refusing to take action is something that I cannot accept and that the public should not have to accept. I call on the Government to listen carefully to the points I have raised and to consider them not as a political or economic issue, but as an essential public health policy. I am sure that the Minister will say that I am talking to the wrong Department, but this issue is intrinsically linked to the Treasury and the Department of Health and Social Care.

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