Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the response of 16 March 2026 to question reference 118609, how much of the revenue raised from VAT on independent school fees was directly spent on teaching staff in the state sector.

Answered by Olivia Bailey - Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Department for Education) (Equalities)

Together, reforms to VAT and business rates will raise around £1.8 billion a year by 2029/30. This measure will raise essential revenue that will be invested in our public services, such as our £1.7 billion increase to school funding in 2026/27, meaning that core school budgets will total £67 billion compared to £65.3 billion in 2025/26.

Question to the Attorney General:

To ask the Solicitor General, how many applications to the High Court the Attorney General's Office has made in each of the past five years to designate an individual as a vexatious litigant.

Answered by Ellie Reeves - Solicitor General (Attorney General's Office)

The Law Officers have made applications to the High Court under s.42 Senior Courts Act 1981 in each of the last five years as follows:

2021 – 1

2022 - none

2023 - none

2024 – 2

2025 – 2 (3 further applications lodged with directions/hearing dates pending)

These dates relate to when the applications were made at a court hearing.

A list of individuals subject to an order under s.42 and the date the order was made is available online: Vexatious litigants - GOV.UK

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department holds data on instances in which police forces have declined to investigate alleged serious criminal offences, including fraud, money laundering or organised crime, on the grounds of resource limitations or internal case-triage decisions; and whether any national guidance exists governing how such decisions should be made.

Answered by Sarah Jones - Minister of State (Home Office)

Operational decisions on case investigations are matters for operationally independent police forces. The Home Office does not issue guidance directing police forces on whether individual cases should or should not be investigated.