Question follow-through · 4422
Private Education: Fees and Charges
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department will take steps to support children who receive bursaries and scholarships at independent schools who are adversely affected by the introduction of VAT on such schools.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 5 Sept 2024
- Target answer date
- 12 Sept 2024
- Answer
- 12 Sept 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
5 Sept 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department will take steps to support children who receive bursaries and scholarships at independent schools who are adversely affected by the introduction of VAT on such schools.
12 Sept 2024
Target answer date
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12 Sept 2024
Answer published
The department is not expecting these changes to have a significant effect on bursaries across the private school sector as a whole. The department expects that charitable schools across the UK will want to continue to demonstrate wider public benefit thr...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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