Question follow-through · 17940
Personal Care Services: VAT
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make it her policy to reduce the VAT (a) rate and (b) threshold for businesses that provide personal care services.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 4 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 12 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 12 Dec 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
4 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make it her policy to reduce the VAT (a) rate and (b) threshold for businesses that provide personal care services.
12 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 Dec 2024
Answer published
VAT is the UK’s second largest tax, forecast to raise £171 billion in 2024/25. At Autumn Budget 2024, the Government took a number of difficult but necessary decisions on tax, welfare, and spending to fix the public finances, fund public services, and res...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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