Question follow-through · 19899
Private Education: Special Educational Needs
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of (a) the number of SEN pupils expected to transition to the state sector as a result of the introduction of VAT on independent school fees and (b) the cost to the state education sy
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 12 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 16 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 19 Dec 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
12 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of (a) the number of SEN pupils expected to transition to the state sector as a result of the introduction of VAT on independent school fees and (b) the cost to the state education sy
16 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Dec 2024
Answer published
His Majesty’s Treasury (HMT) is responsible for VAT policy. HMT has published its assessment of the impacts of removing the VAT exemption that applied to private school fees, which can be found on GOV.UK: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/vat-on-...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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