Question follow-through · 17827

Private Education: Business Rates

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the increased revenue to the public purse generated by the increase in business rates for private schools from 2025-26 onwards will be (a) kept in full by local government, (b) shared between central and loc

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Answering body: Treasury
Tabled: 4 Dec 2024
Target answer date: 6 Dec 2024
Answer: 12 Dec 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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4 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the increased revenue to the public purse generated by the increase in business rates for private schools from 2025-26 onwards will be (a) kept in full by local government, (b) shared between central and loc
6 Dec 2024
Target answer date
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12 Dec 2024
Answer published
At Autumn Budget 2024, the Government reconfirmed that it is removing private schools’ eligibility for charitable rate relief under business rates in England from April 2025. This intervention will raise around £140 million per year. Business rates retent...

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