Question follow-through · 8878
Private Education: VAT
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether independent education settings for people over the age of 19 will be VAT-exempt.
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 14 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 16 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 22 Oct 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
14 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether independent education settings for people over the age of 19 will be VAT-exempt.
16 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
22 Oct 2024
Answer published
As set out in our manifesto and confirmed in the Chancellor’s July statement, we are ending the VAT break for private schools. The government will introduce 20% VAT on education and boarding services provided for a charge from 1 January 2025. As per the d...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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