

Tory Telephone Tax dropped following SNP campaign
Gavin Newlands, SNP MP for Paisley and Renfrewshire North, has welcomed the u-turn from the UK Government to end the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) ‘telephone tax’ on premium phone line charges. Following months of campaigning from the SNP group at Westminster, the Tory Welfare Minister, David Gauke, has given into pressure to change the system which meant that people phoning a helpline to get information on Universal Credit were having to pay up to 55p a minute to get