Question follow-through · 9300
Private Education: VAT
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an estimate of the cost to the public purse of legal fees relating to the introduction of VAT on independent school fees.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 15 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 17 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 23 Oct 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
15 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an estimate of the cost to the public purse of legal fees relating to the introduction of VAT on independent school fees.
17 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 Oct 2024
Answer published
Following scrutiny of the Government’s costing by the independent Office for Budget Responsibility, the Government will confirm its approach to these reforms at the Budget on 30 October, and set out its assessment of relevant expected impacts of this poli...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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