HC Deb 11 February 1997 vol 290 c156W
Ms Walley

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will make a statement in respect of the implications for the North Staffordshire Combined Health Care Trust of costs incurred in the event of the VAT tribunal ruling that VAT be applied to incontinence products. [14334]

Mr. Burns

The outcome of the tribunal will have no impact on the requirement on trusts to pay value added tax on incontinence products supplied to the national health service.