Question follow-through · 3155
Private Education: Special Educational Needs
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether children in independent schools on waiting lists for an educational, health and care plan assessment will have VAT added to school fees.
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 30 Aug 2024
- Target answer date
- 12 Sept 2024
- Answer
- 12 Sept 2024 · 13 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
30 Aug 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether children in independent schools on waiting lists for an educational, health and care plan assessment will have VAT added to school fees.
12 Sept 2024
Target answer date
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12 Sept 2024
Answer published
On 29 July, the Government announced that, as of 1 January 2025, all education services and vocational training provided by a private school in the UK for a charge will be subject to VAT at the standard rate of 20 per cent. This will also apply to boardin...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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