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Private Education: VAT

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has made an estimate of the maximum number of pupils that could move from independent to state schools for there to be a net increase in revenues to the Exchequer arising from her policy on levying VAT o

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Answering body
Treasury
Tabled
4 Sept 2024
Target answer date
9 Sept 2024
Answer
12 Sept 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 4 Sept 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has made an estimate of the maximum number of pupils that could move from independent to state schools for there to be a net increase in revenues to the Exchequer arising from her policy on levying VAT o

  2. 9 Sept 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 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...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

Later records

Possible follow-up questions

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Private Education: VAT

5 Sept 2024 · To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the imposition of VAT on independent school fees on the number of children who are home schooled.

Strong linkSame MP, department and exact heading

Private Education: VAT

9 Sept 2024 · To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will take steps to exempt pupils awaiting an Education Health and Care Plan from the introduction of VAT on independent school fees.

Strong linkSame MP, department and exact heading

Private Education: VAT

9 Sept 2024 · To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department is providing the Office for Budget Responsibility with input assumptions on (a) the price elasticity of demand for independent sector education and (b) the number of children likely to move to

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Private Education: Business Rates and VAT

9 Sept 2024 · To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has received representations over the timing of her Department's consultation on Applying VAT to Private School Fees and Removing the Business Rates Charitable Rates Relief for Private Schools.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Private Education: Fees and Charges

11 Sept 2024 · To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the answer of 9 September 2024 to Question 4047 on Private Education: Fees and Charges, whether she plans to conduct primary research for the Tax Information and Impact Note; and which secondary sources

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Private Education: Fees and Charges

11 Sept 2024 · To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the answer of 9 September 2024 to Question 4047 on Private Education: Fees and Charges, whether the Tax Information and Impact Note will differentiate between (a) mainstream and special provision and (b)

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Private Education: Fees and Charges

11 Sept 2024 · To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the answer of 9 September 2024 to Question 4047 on Private Education: Fees and Charges, whether the Tax Information and Impact Note will include estimated effects (a) at January 2025, (b) at September 20

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Private Education: Fees and Charges

11 Sept 2024 · To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the answer of 9 September 2024 to Question 4047 on Private Education: Fees and Charges, whether the Tax Information and Impact Note will include a (a) reasonable worst case scenario and (b) central plann

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Private Education: Taxation

4 Oct 2024 · To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much revenue to the Exchequer was raised from (a) VAT, (b) business rates, (c) employer contributions to the teachers' pension scheme and (d) any other source paid by the independent school sector in the 2023-24

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Private Education: Taxation

4 Oct 2024 · To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 9 September 2024 to Question 2809 on Private Education: Taxation, whether the tax information and impact note will include an assessment of the potential impact of this policy on different

Strong linkSame MP, department and exact heading

Private Education: VAT

4 Oct 2024 · To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has received legal advice on the compatibility of plans to charge VAT on independent school fees with Articles (a) 2 and (b) 14 of the European Convention on Human Rights.

Strong linkSame MP, department and exact heading

Private Education: VAT

4 Oct 2024 · To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to paragraph 4.7 of her Department's Technical Note entitled Applying VAT to Private School Fees and Removing the Business Rates Charitable Rates Relief for Private Schools, published in July 2024, on