Question follow-through · 2730
VAT: Disability Aids and Medical Equipment
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has made a recent assessment of the potential impact of removing Value Added Tax for (a) wheelchairs and (b) defibrillators on access to those devices.
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 30 Aug 2024
- Target answer date
- 3 Sept 2024
- Answer
- 9 Sept 2024 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
30 Aug 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has made a recent assessment of the potential impact of removing Value Added Tax for (a) wheelchairs and (b) defibrillators on access to those devices.
3 Sept 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 Sept 2024
Answer published
The Government currently provides VAT relief on equipment and appliances that have been designed solely for use by disabled people when purchased for their personal or domestic use, such as wheelchairs, as well as VAT reliefs to aid the purchase of defibr...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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