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Private Education: VAT

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of plans to introduce VAT on independent schools on (a) the number of children attending choir schools, (b) the number of choir schools, (c)

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
8 Oct 2024
Target answer date
15 Oct 2024
Answer
15 Oct 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 8 Oct 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of plans to introduce VAT on independent schools on (a) the number of children attending choir schools, (b) the number of choir schools, (c)

  2. 15 Oct 2024

    Target answer date

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  3. 15 Oct 2024

    Answer published

    This government is committed to ending the VAT exemption that private schools enjoy and will confirm the introduction of these changes at the Budget on 30 October.Following scrutiny of the government’s costing by the independent Office for Budget Responsi...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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