Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask His Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the amount of revenue that will be lost by overseas pupils choosing not to study in the UK as a result of VAT being added to independent schools.

The Government has carefully considered the impact that changes to the tax treatment of private schools will have on state and private schools. Following scrutiny of the Government’s costing by the independent Office for Budget Responsibility, the Government will confirm its approach to these reforms at the Budget on 30 October, and set out its assessment of the expected impacts of these policy changes the usual way.