§ Sandra GidleyTo ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) if he will make a statement on dispensing fees for contact lens and spectacle dispensing from 1 June; [155736]
(2) what plans he has to charge VAT rates on (a) medicine dispensing and (b) spectacle and contact lens dispensing; and if he will make a statement. [155735]
§ Dawn PrimaroloI have been asked to reply.
The Government have no plans to charge VAT on the specific dispensing services of pharmacists or opticians. A House of Lords ruling given in January this year in the "Card Protection Plan" case has far-reaching implications for the VAT treatment of supplies made by many businesses, where one supply is incidental to another.