Question follow-through · 12832
Further Education: VAT
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the current VAT arrangements for further education colleges.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 24 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 29 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 2 Jul 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
24 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the current VAT arrangements for further education colleges.
29 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
2 Jul 2026
Answer published
While VAT is a matter for His Majesty’s Treasury, the department recognises that the VAT status of further education (FE) providers remains an issue of interest to the sector. The government continues to look into the VAT position of FE colleges, noting m...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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