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date	24/01/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Housing: Building Alterations
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 13 January 2022 to Question 103583 on Housing: Building Alterations, what recent estimate his Department has made of the cost to the Exchequer of removing VAT for all building works undertaken for the adaption of a residential property to meet a disabled persons needs has his department undertaken.
tabling member constituency	Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey
tabling member printed	Drew Hendry
uin	110444
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2022 answer text <p>The Government has not estimated the cost to the Exchequer of removing VAT for all building works undertaken for the adaptation of a residential property to meet a disabled person’s needs.</p><p>The scope of the existing VAT reliefs covers alterations specifically for assisting with a disability.</p><p>Disabled people benefit from the zero rate of VAT on certain building works, the reduced VAT rate of 5 per cent on residential construction under certain conditions, and some additional zero-rates on alterations such as work on ramps, bathrooms, lifts, and widening doorways.</p><p>Although all taxes are kept under review, the Government has no plans to introduce new VAT reliefs at this time.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 28/01/2022 11:31:00 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4467 label Biography information for Drew Hendry

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date	30/10/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Mental Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to improve the sharing of medical records between medical institutions and trusts for mental health service users.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	110444
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/11/2017 answer text <p>The Government recognises that appropriate and timely sharing of data is essential to improving care, treatment and support for service users. We are committed to ensuring the health and social care system in England realises the benefits of sharing data in a safe, secure and legal way.</p><p> </p><p>Government policy has outlined the importance of sharing data between organisations at a local level. The Department has worked with the Centre of Excellence for Information Sharing to understand the factors which impact on information sharing in mental health crisis care.</p><p> </p><p>Challenges around transferring patient notes and records between different organisations and care settings are recognised and will be addressed, in part, by the move from paper records to electronic systems for recording and sharing patient information.</p><p> </p><p>‘Information: To Share or not to share? The Information Governance Review’ (2013) created a duty on National Health Service trusts to share information. NHS trusts have to demonstrate in their annual information governance return how they are fulfilling this duty.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 07/11/2017 17:11:35 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel