Letter: Budget losers
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The Children's Trust, however, is disappointed that the Government has not seen fit to ease the burden of irrecoverable VAT. In 1998 we were unable to recover pounds 125,000 on costs incurred providing services to profoundly disabled children.
We hope that the Government will reconsider.
J A DICK
The Children's Trust
Tadworth, Surrey
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