Question follow-through · 4621
Private Education: VAT
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
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 9 Sept 2024
- Target answer date
- 12 Sept 2024
- Answer
- 12 Sept 2024 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
9 Sept 2024
Question tabled
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
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.
Later records
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