VAT ON RESUSCITATION TRAINING MODELS CAMPAIGN

Early day motion 1086, tabled 16 March 1998 by Martin Linton (Labour). Signed by 117 members.

That this House notes the decision under the previous Tory government to impose 17.5 per cent. VAT on resuscitation training models in March 1997, reversing a decision made at the time of the 1990 Budget that resuscitation training dolls are vital pieces of equipment for the St. John Ambulance and other health charities; notes that it is a nonsense to suggest that these training models are used for any other purpose than a medical one and that thousands of people are taught vital life-saving resuscitation techniques with these models; and in this, the year of the 50th anniversary of the founding of the NHS by a Labour government, calls on the Government to investigate this matter, with a view to restoring zero rating of resuscitation models which will ensure that medical volunteers and professionals are not hampered from learning techniques which will enable them to provide life-saving first aid to current and future generations of British citizens.

Signatures by party: Labour 74, Liberal Democrat 26, Conservative 6, Labour/Co-operative 5, Plaid Cymru 3, DUP 1, Independent 1, Independent Conservative 1.