questionText: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what engagement she has undertaken with families, clinicians and charities to discuss the impact of VAT on compassionate access programme medicines.
answerText: Under UK VAT law, some transactions where no money changes hands are treated as if a supply has been made – these are called deemed supplies. This is to keep the system fair if a business has reclaimed VAT on costs. Whether VAT applies to medicines or tre...
heading: Drugs: VAT