Question follow-through · 7653
Private Education: VAT
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help ensure that children who eave the independent sector in areas with no state school availability are safeguarded.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 7 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 14 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 17 Oct 2024 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
7 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help ensure that children who eave the independent sector in areas with no state school availability are safeguarded.
14 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Oct 2024
Answer published
This government is committed to ending the VAT exemption that private schools enjoy. Research by the Institute for Fiscal Studies indicates that the number of pupils who may switch schools as a result of this change is likely to represent a very small pro...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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