Question follow-through · 87784
Schools: Transport
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the HMRC guidance, Local authorities and similar bodies (VAT Notice 749), whether local authorities will be able to recover VAT on private hire for school transport.
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 4 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 11 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 13 Nov 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
4 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the HMRC guidance, Local authorities and similar bodies (VAT Notice 749), whether local authorities will be able to recover VAT on private hire for school transport.
11 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
13 Nov 2025
Answer published
Local authorities have a duty to provide free transport from home to school, in certain circumstances. This is a non-business activity for VAT and where a local authority purchases the services of private hire companies in order to fulfil their statutory ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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