Government confirms group will receive £250000 despite outcry from MPs and women’s groupsThe government has confirmed that it is to award a quarter of a million pounds from an unpopular levy on women’s sanitary products to an anti-abortion organisation,despite objections from women’s groups and MPs.
There was an outcry earlier this year after the Observer revealed that £250000 of the money raised from the so-called tampon tax – the 5% rate of VAT that is levied on sanitary products would recede to Life, a charity that campaigns against abortion.
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Source: guardian.co.uk