Question follow-through · 5274
Private Education: Fees and Charges
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)
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 11 Sept 2024
- Target answer date
- 7 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 7 Oct 2024 · 26 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
11 Sept 2024
Question tabled
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)
7 Oct 2024
Target answer date
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7 Oct 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
Possible follow-up questions
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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
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
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.
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
Private Education: VAT
4 Oct 2024 · To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate her Department has made of the annual cost to HM Revenue and Customs of reimbursing VAT to local councils for pupils with education, health and care (EHC) plans.
Further Education: VAT
4 Oct 2024 · To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether students at post 16 special colleges who have an Education, Health and Care plan will be exempt from VAT on college fees.
Further Education: VAT
4 Oct 2024 · To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether health and social care charges for students at special schools and colleges will be exempt from VAT.
Private Education: VAT
4 Oct 2024 · To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether charged-for education provided in (a) church premises and (b) other dual-use locations that are charitably exempt will be liable for (i) VAT and (ii) business rates.
Private Education: VAT
4 Oct 2024 · To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what criteria her Department plans to use to classify schools as English language schools for the purposes of determining an exemption from VAT.
Private Education: Business Rates and VAT
4 Oct 2024 · To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether it is her policy that bi-lingual schools will be exempt for paying (a) VAT and (b) business rates.
Private Education: VAT
4 Oct 2024 · To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether it is her policy that independent schools part-funded by overseas governments will be exempt from paying VAT.
Private Education: VAT
14 Oct 2024 · To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 2 August 2024 to Question 1651 on Private Education: VAT, whether independent Welsh language schools will be exempt from VAT.