New Clause 7: Finance Bill (Ways and Means) (Payment of Corporation Tax)
New Clause 7— VAT on sanitary protection products (No. 2)
“(1) Within three months of the passing of this Act, the Chancellor of the Exchequer shall lay before both Houses of Parliament a statement on his strategy to negotiate with the European Union institutions an exemption from value added tax for women’s sanitary protection products.
(2) A Minister of the Crown must lay before Parliament a report on progress at achieving an exemption from value added tax for women’s sanitary protection products within European Union law by 1 April 2016.”—(Paula Sherriff.)