Counsellors and Psychotherapists 2025-01-07
2025-01-07
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The MP inquires about plans to maintain service provision for psychotherapists and counsellors affected by cost increases due to national insurance hikes.
Is there a plan to maintain service provision where psychotherapists and counsellors operating in the charity sector have been hit by eye-watering cost increases as a consequence of the national insurance increase?
As I have said in answers to previous questions, and as my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State has said, there is something of a pattern emerging here: Opposition Members say that they welcome the investment the Government have made, but oppose the revenue-raising measures and refuse to set out whether they would increase taxes or cut services.
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The question about maintaining service provision for affected psychotherapists and counsellors was not addressed. Instead, the minister criticised the opposition's stance on tax increases.
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