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Private Education: Bedfordshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate her Department has made of the number of pupils in Bedfordshire who will leave the independent school system as a result of VAT on school fees.

answeredDepartment for Education

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

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Recorded timeline

  1. 30 Oct 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate her Department has made of the number of pupils in Bedfordshire who will leave the independent school system as a result of VAT on school fees.

  2. 4 Nov 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 7 Nov 2024

    Answer published

    The department has made no estimate of the number of pupils in Bedfordshire who will leave the independent school system as a result of VAT on school fees. The government predicts that, in the long-run steady state, there will be 37,000 fewer pupils in th...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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