MP calls for answers over tax pressures on Lincs & Notts Air Ambulance

NATIONAL INSURANCE CHANGES WERE ESTIMATED TO COST THE SERVICE AN EXTRA £70,000 ANNUALLY

- BY JAMIE WALLER

A LINCOLNSHIRE MP has said it’s “shameful” that the government hasn't responded to questions over the Lincs and Notts air ambulance for an entire year.

Concerns were raised last year that the national insurance increase would leave the service £70,000 worse off.

The air ambulance, which operates 365 days a year, doesn’t receive any money from the government or NHS, and relies on contributions. A group of Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire MPs wrote to the Treasury after the 2024 Autumn Budget to ask for charities like the LNAA to be made exempt from the rise.

Sleaford and Hykeham MP Dr Caroline Johnson says they still haven't received a response.