VAT Relief: Business Donations Debate

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Department: HM Treasury

VAT Relief: Business Donations

Baroness Neville-Rolfe Excerpts
Tuesday 19th May 2026

(2 months, 1 week ago)

Lords Chamber
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Lord Livermore Portrait Lord Livermore (Lab)
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The location of supermarkets is largely a commercial decision for the supermarkets themselves and not one for me, but I believe that that is exactly what the social supermarkets that the Question relates to are trying to do.

Baroness Neville-Rolfe Portrait Baroness Neville-Rolfe (Con)
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My Lords, we on these Benches very much agree that food and other waste should be minimised, and we sympathise with the objective of this measure. However, are the Government satisfied that the proposal will be effectively administered? I speak, of course, as a former retailer.