Written Question·Treasury·UIN 14172

Aviation: VAT

Tabled: 29 June 2026

Answered: 2 July 2026

Named Day

Question

Joe Robertson

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate she has made of the annual cost to the Exchequer of applying a zero rate of VAT to commercial pilot training undertaken in the UK by (a) British nationals, (b) overseas nationals and (c) all trainee co

Answer

Dan Tomlinson

The Government has not made an estimate. I refer the Honourable Member to my answer of 23 April to the Honourable Member for Basildon and Billericay (UIN 128427), in which I stated that HMRC does not hold information on VAT revenue from pilot training, an...

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