Question follow-through · 13459
Further Education: VAT
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to his Answer of 17 October 2024 to Question 8846 on Further Education: VAT, if she will set out the reasons why further education colleges are unable to recover the VAT they have incurred on their expendit
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 11 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 14 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 14 Nov 2024 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
11 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to his Answer of 17 October 2024 to Question 8846 on Further Education: VAT, if she will set out the reasons why further education colleges are unable to recover the VAT they have incurred on their expendit
14 Nov 2024
Target answer date
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14 Nov 2024
Answer published
Section 33 of the VAT Act 1994 provides a scheme that allows local authorities (LAs) and similar public bodies to refunds of VAT equal to that incurred on purchases of goods and services relating to their statutory non-business activities. The scheme was ...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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