The Caravan Tax Campaign

Beverley and Holderness MP, Graham Stuart, has met with the Minister for Business & Industry to impress on the Government the caravan industry’s importance for the local area.

Yesterday Graham Stuart, the MP for Beverley and Holderness, organised a meeting between local MPs and caravan manufacturers at ABI in Beverley to celebrate the announcement that the proposed increase in VAT on static holiday caravans will be cut by 75 percent and delayed until April 2013.

Graham Stuart, the MP for Beverley and Holderness, has organised a meeting with caravan manufacturers and local MPs who worked to convince the Government to change course on the caravan tax.

Static holiday caravans will be taxed at 5%, not 20%, after a successful cross-party campaign led by Graham Stuart MP.

Last night in the House of Commons Graham Stuart, the Member of Parliament for Beverley and Holderness, led a compact half hour debate in which MPs from all sides of the House, but mostly from the Government benches themselves, urged the Government not to go ahead with imposition of VAT on static

This week Beverley and Holderness MP Graham Stuart met separately with both the Prime Minister and the Chancellor to discuss the impact of the caravan tax.

Yesterday MPs from East Yorkshire and across the UK formally submitted a public petition in the House of Commons opposing the imposition of VAT on static holiday caravans.

Local MP Graham Stuart, the Member of Parliament for Beverley and Holderness, has secured additional time for Parliament to debate the impact of imposing VAT on static caravans.

Graham Stuart, the MP for Beverley and Holderness, has taken further action this week to defeat the caravan tax and tabled a motion calling on the Government to reject plans for an increase in VAT on static holiday caravans.

Graham Stuart, the Member of Parliament for Beverley and Holderness, and a cross-party group of local MPs will be meeting with representatives of the East Yorkshire caravan industry tomorrow to discuss the impact of a proposed VAT increase.