Question follow-through · 38596
Private Education: VAT
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the application of VAT on private school fees on the (a) accessibility and (b) quality of state education.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 17 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 19 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 29 Mar 2025 · 12 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
17 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the application of VAT on private school fees on the (a) accessibility and (b) quality of state education.
19 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
29 Mar 2025
Answer published
As set out in HM Treasury’s tax information and impact note published on GOV.UK, the introduction of VAT is anticipated to have a very limited impact on the number of pupils in state and private schools. The department has not seen any evidence that contr...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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