The Treasury has temporarily scrapped VAT on the sale of essential personal protective equipment during the coronavirus crisis.
It comes after weeks of demands from charities and unions to scrap the sales tax. Unison's General Secretary Dave Prentis had called for the move to help ease the 'national emergency' in social care.
The Government is hoping to ease the finances of care homes and charities - which have seen their incomes slashed and face being crippled by the cost of buying PPE.
It came as MPs heard charities were “teetering on a cliff edge” at the very time they are needed to help cope with the coronavirus crisis.