Question follow-through · 24579
Schools: Uniforms
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of removing VAT on school uniforms.
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 16 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 21 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 21 Jan 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
16 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of removing VAT on school uniforms.
21 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
21 Jan 2025
Answer published
VAT is a broad-based tax on consumption and the 20 per cent standard rate applies to most goods and services. VAT is the UK’s second largest tax forecast to raise £171 billion in 2024/25. Taxation is a vital source of revenue that helps to fund vital publ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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