Question follow-through · 30740

Private Education: Business Rates and VAT

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of (a) business rates on private schools and (b) VAT on school fees on economic growth.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body: Department for Education
Tabled: 11 Feb 2025
Target answer date: 13 Feb 2025
Answer: 19 Feb 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

11 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of (a) business rates on private schools and (b) VAT on school fees on economic growth.
13 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Feb 2025
Answer published
Economic impacts of the policy to apply VAT to private school fees are covered in the tax information and impact note (TIIN) that the government has published on GOV.UK. The publication can be accessed here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/vat-...

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