Membership-based Charity Organisations
Debate between Angus MacDonald and Derek Twigg(4 days, 11 hours ago)
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Mr Angus MacDonald (Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire) (LD)
I thank the hon. Member for allowing me to intervene. I wonder if the Minister would consider the following. I was the vice-president of the National Trust for Scotland for the majority of 10 years and I know the senior management there very well. They have been extremely hurt by the national insurance increase, particularly on people who do part—
Derek Twigg (in the Chair)
Order. It is an intervention on the Member, not the Minister.
Mr MacDonald
Yes—sorry. Does the hon. Member agree that when the Government introduce legislation on, for example, national insurance and people doing part-time work, and now this gift aid issue, they should consider charities as separate organisations?