A question on #NHSTrusts #VAT tabled by Neil Duncan-Jordan on 04-07-2025 has been answered by Karin Smyth.

Heading: NHS Trusts: VAT
Question ID: 1819860
UIN: 65197
House: Commons
Date tabled: 2025-07-04
Asking Member ID: 5359
Asking Member display name: Neil Duncan-Jordan
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Asking Member Twitter reference: Neil Duncan-Jordan
Member interest: false
Question text: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to issue new guidance to NHS Trusts advising them not to set up wholly owned subsidiary companies to avoid paying VAT.
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Date answered: 2025-07-11
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Answering Member ID: 4444
Answering Member display name: Karin Smyth
Answering Member handle: karinsmyth
Answering Member Twitter reference: @karinsmyth
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Answer text: The current NHS England guidance dated February 2024, titled Guidance for assuring and supporting complex change – subsidiaries guidance for trusts forming or changing a subsidiary, sets out the VAT position of wholly owned subsidiaries and confirms that ...
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Answering body ID: 17
Answering body name: Department of Health and Social Care
Tweeted: true