Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 28 November 2018 to Question 193450 on NHS: Tax Avoidance, if he will publish a list of the evidence used to inform his Answer that there has been no significant impact on the National Health Service of the IR35 changes.
HM Revenue and Customs Research Report 487 ‘Off-Payroll reform in the public sector’ published in May 2018 is the basis for the figures quoted in the answer to Question 183335:
Although this report is not National Health Service specific it covered the “key sectors of Public Administration & Defence, Education and Health & Social work”. As previously advised, the outcomes from this report were that there had not been a significant impact on the public sector of the IR35 changes.
In addition to this, NHS Improvement has confirmed that through discussions they have held with key stakeholders within the sector there is no evidence of these changes having a significant detrimental effect on their ability to recruit temporary workers. NHS Improvement continuously monitors the levels of staffing in National Health Service trusts to ensure they are able to prioritise patient care.