Written Question·Department for Education·UIN 29208

Private Education: VAT

Tabled: 5 February 2025
Answered: 20 February 2025

Question

Gregory Stafford

ConservativeFarnham and Bordon

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

Stephen Morgan
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...

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