Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Jeremy Hunt and Tonia Antoniazzi

Tuesday 21st March 2023 Commons Chamber

[Tonia Antoniazzi (Gower) (Lab)]

T3.   When the Chancellor chaired the Health and Social Care Committee, the British Medical Association told him that pension reforms just for doctors would be a fraction of the cost of what he announced in the Budget. Can he tell us precisely how many doctors the Treasury estimates will stay in work due to this untargeted tax giveaway for the top 1%?

[Jeremy Hunt]

It is not just about doctors leaving the profession, but doctors reducing their hours. The Royal College of Surgeons says that 69% of its members have reduced their hours as a result of the way that pension taxes used to work. Doctors themselves have welcomed the Budget warmly and as potentially transformative for the NHS.