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Export-deferred Works of Art: VAT
Lord Freyberg asked Her Majesty's Government:
- Whether they will agree to the recommendation, put forward in the Report of the Reviewing Committee on the Exports of Works of Art (Part I: 16), that Value Added Tax should be remitted on sales of exported-deferred objects to approved United Kingdom buyers.
The Minister of State, Department of Social Security (Lord Mackay of Ardbrecknish): Her Majesty's Government have no plans to introduce such a relief. There is already a substantial degree of VAT relief for supplies and importations of works of art. Further relief of the kind suggested would increase pressure for similar reliefs from other worthy causes, and the resulting loss of revenue would have to be made good from other sources. Such relief would also not be compatible with current EC rules.
Tuberculosis and Badgers: Review Team
Lord HolmPatrick asked Her Majesty's Government:
- Whether they can give further details of membership of the independent scientific review into the policy on tuberculosis and badgers which was announced on 23rd July.
Lord Lucas: My right honourable friend the Minister of Agriculture is pleased to be able to announce the membership of the independent review team on tuberculosis and badgers. Apart from Professor Krebs, who has already kindly agreed to chair the review, the members are Professor Roy Anderson FRS, Dr. W. I. Morrison, Professor Douglas Young, Professor Tim Clutton-Brock FRS and Dr. Crystl Donnelly.
The review will look at the incidence of tuberculosis in cattle and badgers and assess the scientific evidence for the links between them. It will take account of EC policies on reducing and eliminating the incidence of tuberculosis in cattle and of any risk to the human population. Its overall purpose will be to review, in the light of scientific evidence, present government policy on badgers and tuberculosis, and to make recommendations.
The review is now beginning. Interested parties who wish to submit written evidence to the committee are invited to do so before 15th January 1997.
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