Private Education: Business Rates — Written Question

Question

Kevin Hollinrake

Conservative — Thirsk and Malton

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the increased revenue to the public purse generated by the increase in business rates for private schools from 2025-26 onwards will be (a) kept in full by local government, (b) shared between central and loc

Answer

James Murray

At Autumn Budget 2024, the Government reconfirmed that it is removing private schools’ eligibility for charitable rate relief under business rates in England from April 2025. This intervention will raise around £140 million per year. Business rates retent...

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