Question follow-through · 14160
Higher Education: VAT
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of exempting VAT charges for universities that undertake shared services as a cross-sharing group.
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 13 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 18 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 22 Nov 2024 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
13 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of exempting VAT charges for universities that undertake shared services as a cross-sharing group.
18 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
22 Nov 2024
Answer published
Universities can already benefit from exempting VAT charges for shared services within a cost sharing group providing certain conditions are met. This enables them to make efficiency savings by working together and sharing qualifying costs without incurri...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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