NHS: Agency Workers

(asked on 5th September 2018) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an estimate of the VAT loss to the public purse of the use of direct engagement models for agency health workers in the NHS.


Answered by
Mel Stride Portrait
Mel Stride
Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
This question was answered on 14th September 2018

Where agency health workers are directly engaged by the Trusts, then VAT is due on the introductory fee charged by the agency.

HMRC review the VAT position of all taxpayers, including NHS trusts, to help ensure that VAT is collected where it is due.

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