Written Question·Treasury·UIN 30733

Schools: Uniforms

Tabled: 11 February 2025

Answered: 24 February 2025

Named Day

Question

Ian Sollom

Liberal Democrat — St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 30 January 2025 to Question 26623 on Schools: Uniforms, what is the evidential basis to support that (a) expanding the existing relief may not reduce the price of school uniforms and (b) VA

Answer

James Murray

There is a wide range of academic research into how VAT changes affect prices, which supports the conclusion that pass-through is typically only partial. This includes, for example, an International Monetary Fund study which examined the pass through of V...

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