Question follow-through · 18930
Private Education: VAT
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many and what proportion of private schools have been provided with a VAT number.
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 10 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 12 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 18 Dec 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many and what proportion of private schools have been provided with a VAT number.
12 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
18 Dec 2024
Answer published
HMRC publishes data on the VAT population by sector on an annual basis. The latest statistics can be found here: Value Added Tax (VAT) annual statistics - GOV.UK The point at which private schools need to register for VAT depends on their individual circu...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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