Rockstar Roger Daltrey has actually advised Chancellor Rachel Reeves a rise in companies’ nationwide insurance policy payments will certainly be “catastrophic” for cancer cells charities.
The Who vocalist is an honorary client of the Teenage Cancer Trust and the band has actually played shows to increase cash for the charity.
He claimed the adjustments revealed in the Budget, which will certainly see an increase in payments from 13.8% to 15% from April, will certainly leave the charity encountering plain options.
“If we can’t raise more money we will have to lay people off,” he informed The Daily Telegraph, claiming he did not “like to think about the consequences” of removing professional registered nurses.
“To lose nurses would be catastrophic”
The degree at which companies begin paying the tax obligation on each staff member’s wage will certainly drop from ₤ 9,100 a year to ₤ 5,000
The National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) claimed the payments will certainly set you back the charity field, which uses around 3% of the UK labor force, around ₤ 1.4 billion every year.
“I’m incredibly angry because the Government is just throwing money at the NHS thinking that will solve all the problems, which it quite clearly won’t, and it’s being funded partly by taking money from charities like ours.”
He claimed charities such as the Teenage Cancer Trust, Marie Curie Hospices and Macmillan Cancer Support registered nurses took “an awful lot of burden off the NHS” and the nationwide insurance policy boost had “so little thought behind it”.
The 80-year-old vocalist, that was made a CBE in 2005 for his solutions to songs and charities, claimed he would certainly be welcoming Health Secretary Wes Streeting to among the count on’s 28 professional devices to reveal him the job done by health care charities.
NCVO president Sarah Elliott claimed the scheduled nationwide insurance policy boost will certainly be “absolutely unsustainable” for several charities.
“Charities across the country are already in a dire situation, juggling a triple threat of rising demand, escalating costs and falling funding,” she claimed.
“This additional cost, for which there is no headroom in budgets to cover, will be devastating.”
