Question follow-through · 76110

Private Education: VAT

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the potential impact of changes to the VAT status of independent schools on the number of children enrolled in state schools in September 2025.

answeredDepartment for Education

About this written question

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Answering body: Department for Education
Tabled: 9 Sept 2025
Target answer date: 11 Sept 2025
Answer: 2 Oct 2025 · 23 calendar days after tabling

Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.

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Recorded timeline

9 Sept 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the potential impact of changes to the VAT status of independent schools on the number of children enrolled in state schools in September 2025.
11 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
2 Oct 2025
Answer published
HM Treasury published a Tax Information and Impact Note on applying VAT to independent school fees, which includes the government’s estimates of the number of pupils expected to enter the state sector as a result of this policy. This is available here: ht...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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