Скачать или смотреть Jake Berry MP asks the Chancellor of the Exchequer about mileage recovery rates, 15 March 2022.

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The Good Neighbours Network has launched a Parliamentary petition calling on the Chancellor to raise the amount that can be claimed from 45p – where it has stood since 2011 – to 60p. The petition has already attracted more than 2,800 signatures.

The cost of living crisis is making life impossible for the 4,000 GNN volunteers, who are struggling to continue amid rocketing petrol and insurance costs.

Good Neighbours volunteers – there are 125 independent groups spread across Hampshire - perform vital services such as taking people to hospital appointments and collecting prescriptions.

In 2021, they performed 101,488 such acts of kindness, helping 15,170 people and saving the NHS £1,181,732 in missed appointments alone. They often drive long distances, especially in rural areas.

But with petrol, insurance and other motoring costs now exceeding the amount they can claim in mileage, many of them are wondering how long they can carry on.

The HMRC mileage rate has stood at 45p since 2011/12. Petrol prices have increased 14.6% (Dec 2021, before the current crisis) and insurance premiums 27.7% (Sep 2019, the latest figure) since then.

RPI inflation (all items annual) stood at 7.1% in Dec 2021, CPI at 5.4% and even CPIH at 4.8%, and inflation is forecast to rise [Source: ONS]. The NHS pays nurses 56p per mile (any profit is currently taxable).

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