Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of whether state schools have sufficient capacity to accommodate the number of additional pupils who would leave independent schools in the event that VAT were to be levied on independent school fees.

The Government has no plans to make changes to the VAT regime for independent schools. Therefore, it is not necessary to make any assessment of the capacity of state schools to accommodate additional pupils in the event VAT were levied on independent school fees.