VAT On Resuscitation Training Models Campaign

EDM number 1086 in 1997-98, proposed by Martin Linton on 16/03/1998.

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.

This motion has been signed by a total of 116 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.