Air Ambulance Services

EDM number 60 in 2012-13, proposed by Hugh Bayley on 14/05/2012.
Categorised under the topics of Taxation and Ambulance services.

That this House notes that, whilst the Lifeboat Service has been exempt from VAT on fuel costs since 1977, a similar privilege has not been afforded to air ambulance services; further notes that air ambulance services are forced to meet rising fuel prices year on year; recognises that voluntary fundraising and charitable donations from the British public to sustain air ambulance services have saved successive governments millions of pounds in expenditure; further notes that more than 100,000 members of the public have signed an e-petition calling on the Government to treat air ambulance services in a similar way to the Lifeboat Service in respect of VAT on fuel costs; calls on the Government to review this matter in recognition of the valuable service the Air Ambulance Service provides; and further calls on the Government to return in the form of grants to Air Ambulance Service providers all the VAT which the Treasury collects from them so that the Air Ambulance Service is in practice exempt from paying VAT in the same way as the Lifeboat Service.

This motion has been signed by a total of 74 MPs.