Further Education Colleges: Recovery of VAT Debate
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Baroness Garden of Frognal
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Further Education Colleges: Recovery of VAT
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Lord Livermore (Lab)
Yes, although overhauling the entire VAT system would be something of a long-term project.
Baroness Garden of Frognal (LD)
My Lords, I endorse everything that the noble Baroness, Lady Blackstone, said about the disparity in pay between FE lecturers and schoolteachers, and the iniquity of that. FE is simply not treated in the same way as other educational systems. The Minister keeps saying that the Government are looking into this. Can he put a timescale on that? Are they looking into it this year, next year or way in the future?
Lord Livermore (Lab)
As I have said, we are looking into the VAT position of these colleges. I am not in a position to put a timescale on that just now.