UK Election and Our VAT Agreement

[genericUserName]

4 hours ago, Manxman2000 said:

Andy Burnham was a minister in the Gordon Brown government, it was him who was taking the health agreement off the Isle of Man traveler meaning if you went to Liverpool shopping for a day and had some sort of accident you would get the bill for treatment.  It was the Irish Labour mp that had some affinity with the island who saved the agreement.   Not the type of politician to have looking in this direction. 

check out @Declan's post above.

https://www.manxforums.com/topic/74743-uk-election-and-our-vat-agreement/?do=findComment&comment=1796845

 

Edited May 29 by genericUserName

[woolley]

21 hours ago, Manxman2000 said:

Andy Burnham was a minister in the Gordon Brown government, it was him who was taking the health agreement off the Isle of Man traveler meaning if you went to Liverpool shopping for a day and had some sort of accident you would get the bill for treatment.  It was the Irish Labour mp that had some affinity with the island who saved the agreement.   Not the type of politician to have looking in this direction. 
 

be careful what you wish for.

 

Just about completely upside down. @Declan has already outlined what happened. The UK decided to stop the one sided payments to the Island, so someone in Douglas saw the opportunity to make everyone cover themselves with private health travel insurance to save the IOM Govt some money. They wanted to let it slide by default. It was only after the massive stink kicked up by the public that they relented and started talking seriously with London. Rodan and MP Andrew Mackinlay were involved in agitating to change things.

Burnham then announced the continuation of the arrangement and a new RHA:

“I would like to inform the House that, following further discussions
between the Department and the Isle of Man Government, it has been
agreed to defer the termination of the bilateral healthcare agreement
between the UK and the Isle of Man by six months. We have also agreed
that the current 2009-10 financial allocation of £2.8 million given by the UK
Government to the Isle of Man Government for elective treatment will be the
last payment of this kind. From 2010-2011, no such payment will be made
and no public money will change hands between the respective
Governments. This new arrangement will bring the Isle of Man into line
with other agreements that the UK has with a number of non-European
economic area countries. Both Governments have agreed to keep the
situation under review with the expectation that it can form the basis of a
new reciprocal healthcare agreement that would come into place in the
autumn, if the new arrangement is working for both parties. We believe that
we have arrived at a position that not only provides the UK taxpayer with an
agreement that represents value for money, but also ensures arrangements
for travellers on temporary visits remain the same as they are today”.

I am not a fan of Burnham by any means, but he wasn't culpable in the situation as the link below shows.

https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200910/cmselect/cmjust/56/56we24.htm

Edited May 29 by woolley