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Health Services: VAT

Asked by Charlie DewhirstConservativeDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled Answered 4 September 2025UIN 73328

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his Department's policy is on levying VAT on (a) private health insurance and (b) private health care.

Answered by Karin Smyth

Both private health insurance and private health care are currently exempt from VAT. However, the responsibility for any future amendments to the VAT regime would not fall to the Department of Health and Social Care, but to HM Treasury.

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