Question follow-through · 8230
Private Education: Special Educational Needs
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of charging VAT on independent school fees on local authority costings to support displaced former private school children with special education needs.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 9 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 14 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 18 Oct 2024 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
9 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of charging VAT on independent school fees on local authority costings to support displaced former private school children with special education needs.
14 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
18 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. The Office for Budget Responsibility will also certify the government’s costings for these ...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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