Member

Amendment 28 tries simply to bring consistency to the way that nursery schools, including those with charitable status, are treated for business rates purposes. I confess to being confused by what the Minister wrote in his letter to me on this point, so maybe he could clarify this. As I understand it, the Bill specifically excludes nursery schools from the definition of private schools in new sub-paragraph (4)(a)(iii) in Clause 5(2). In Committee, the Minister said: