Question follow-through · 9246
Defibrillators: VAT
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of removing VAT from defibrillators in the forthcoming Budget.
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 15 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 17 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 23 Oct 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
15 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of removing VAT from defibrillators in the forthcoming Budget.
17 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 Oct 2024
Answer published
The Government currently provides VAT reliefs to aid the purchase of defibrillators. This means that charities pay no VAT if they purchase a defibrillator and then donate it to an eligible body. VAT is a broad-based tax on consumption, and exceptions to t...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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