Question follow-through · 2820
Private Education: Business Rates
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate she has made of the average annual cost to independent schools of proposed changes in business rates.
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 30 Aug 2024
- Target answer date
- 3 Sept 2024
- Answer
- 9 Sept 2024 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
30 Aug 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate she has made of the average annual cost to independent schools of proposed changes in business rates.
3 Sept 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 Sept 2024
Answer published
On 29 July 2024, the Government announced that eligibility for business rates charitable rate relief will be removed from private schools in England. The increased business rates liability will vary from school to school and will be determined by their un...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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