Private Education: VAT
Commons · Question 29208 · Tabled 5 Feb 2025 · Department for Education · Official record
Answered 20 Feb 2025
Question
Asked by Gregory Stafford
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the number of children who have moved from independent to state schools as a result of applying VAT to independent schools in Hampshire.
Answer
Answered by Stephen Morgan, 20 Feb 2025
The department has made no separate estimate of the number of pupils in individual local authority areas who have left the independent school system as a result of VAT on school fees.The government predicts that, in the long-term steady state, there will...