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Written Question

Private Education: Fees and Charges

Monday 7th October 2024

Asked by: Damian Hinds (Conservative - East Hampshire)

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the answer of 9 September 2024 to Question 4047 on Private Education: Fees and Charges, whether the Tax Information and Impact Note will differentiate between (a) mainstream and special provision and (b) primary, secondary and sixth form phases.

Answered by James Murray - Exchequer Secretary (HM Treasury)

On 29 July, the Government announced that, as of 1 January 2025, all education services and vocational training provided by a private school in the UK for a charge will be subject to VAT at the standard rate of 20 per cent. This will also apply to boarding services provided by private schools.

Any fees paid from 29 July 2024 relating to the term starting in January 2025 onwards will be subject to VAT. Furthermore, where a school in England has charitable status, the Government will legislate to remove their eligibility to business rates charitable rate relief. This is intended to take effect from April 2025, subject to Parliamentary passage.

A technical note setting out the details of these two tax policies has been published online here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/vat-on-private-school-fees-removing-the-charitable-rates-relief-for-private-schools.

Draft VAT legislation was also published alongside this technical note, forming a technical consultation, which closed on 15 September. As part of this technical consultation, the Government engaged with a broad range of stakeholders.

Whilst developing these policies, the Government has carefully considered the impact that they will have on pupils and their families across both the state and private sector, as well as the impact they will have on state and private schools. Following scrutiny of the Government's costings by the independent Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), details of the Government’s assessment of the expected impacts of these policy changes will be published at the Budget on 30 October in a Tax Information and Impact Note.

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Written Question

Apprentices: Training

Friday 4th October 2024

Asked by: Baroness Wolf of Dulwich (Crossbench - Life peer)

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask His Majesty's Government what proportion of apprenticeship starts in financial year 2022–2023 with (1) levy-paying and (2) non-levy paying employers undertook their training in (a) independent training providers, (b) general further education colleges, and (c) other providers.

Answered by Baroness Smith of Malvern - Minister of State (Education)

Apprenticeship starts by provider type and funding type for the 2022/23 academic year are shown in the following tables.

Funding type	Provider type	Starts in Academic Year 2022/23	Starts percentage in Academic Year 2022/23
Supported by Apprenticeship Service Account (ASA) levy funds	General Further Education (FE) College including Tertiary	28,490	12.4%
	Other Public Funded, such as Local Authorities and Higher Education(HE)	50,320	21.9%
	Private Sector Public Funded	149,510	65.1%
	Schools	180	0.1%
	Sixth Form College	130	0.1%
	Special College	1090	0.5%
	Total	229,720	100.0%

Funding type	Provider type	Starts in Academic Year 2022/23	Starts percentage in Academic Year 2022/23
Other (not supported by ASA levy funds)	General FE College including Tertiary	30,210	28.1%
	Other Public Funded, such as Local Authorities and HE	4510	4.2%
	Private Sector Public Funded	71,310	66.4%
	Schools	20	<0.05%
	Sixth Form College	210	0.2%
	Special College	1160	1.1%
	Total	107,410	100.0%

Funding type	Provider type	Starts in Academic Year 2022/23	Starts percentage in Academic Year 2022/23
Total	General FE College including Tertiary	58,700	17.4%
	Other Public Funded, such as Local Authorities and HE	54,830	16.3%
	Private Sector Public Funded	220,820	65.5%
	Schools	200	0.1%
	Sixth Form College	340	0.1%
	Special College	2250	0.7%
	Total	337,140	100.0%

Note:

(1) Volumes are rounded to the nearest 10.

(2) Total starts are the count of apprenticeships started at any point during the stated academic period. Learners starting more than one apprenticeship will appear more than once.

These figures are published in the ‘apprenticeships statistics’ publication, which can accessed at: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/apprenticeships.

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Written Question

Apprentices: Training

Friday 4th October 2024

Asked by: Baroness Wolf of Dulwich (Crossbench - Life peer)

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask His Majesty's Government what proportion of apprenticeship starts in the financial year 2022–2023 undertook their training in (1) independent training providers, (2) general further education colleges, and (3) other providers.

Answered by Baroness Smith of Malvern - Minister of State (Education)

Apprenticeship starts by provider type and funding type for the 2022/23 academic year are shown in the following tables.

Funding type	Provider type	Starts in Academic Year 2022/23	Starts percentage in Academic Year 2022/23
Supported by Apprenticeship Service Account (ASA) levy funds	General Further Education (FE) College including Tertiary	28,490	12.4%
	Other Public Funded, such as Local Authorities and Higher Education(HE)	50,320	21.9%
	Private Sector Public Funded	149,510	65.1%
	Schools	180	0.1%
	Sixth Form College	130	0.1%
	Special College	1090	0.5%
	Total	229,720	100.0%

Funding type	Provider type	Starts in Academic Year 2022/23	Starts percentage in Academic Year 2022/23
Other (not supported by ASA levy funds)	General FE College including Tertiary	30,210	28.1%
	Other Public Funded, such as Local Authorities and HE	4510	4.2%
	Private Sector Public Funded	71,310	66.4%
	Schools	20	<0.05%
	Sixth Form College	210	0.2%
	Special College	1160	1.1%
	Total	107,410	100.0%

Funding type	Provider type	Starts in Academic Year 2022/23	Starts percentage in Academic Year 2022/23
Total	General FE College including Tertiary	58,700	17.4%
	Other Public Funded, such as Local Authorities and HE	54,830	16.3%
	Private Sector Public Funded	220,820	65.5%
	Schools	200	0.1%
	Sixth Form College	340	0.1%
	Special College	2250	0.7%
	Total	337,140	100.0%

Note:

(1) Volumes are rounded to the nearest 10.

(2) Total starts are the count of apprenticeships started at any point during the stated academic period. Learners starting more than one apprenticeship will appear more than once.

These figures are published in the ‘apprenticeships statistics’ publication, which can accessed at: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/apprenticeships.

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Non-Departmental Publication (News and Communications)
Teaching Regulation Agency

Oct. 03 2024

Source Page: Teacher misconduct panel outcome: Mr Robert Brathwaite
Document: (PDF)

Found: Professional conduct panel outcome Panel decision and reasons on behalf of the Secretary of State for Education

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Departmental Publication (Guidance and Regulation)
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Oct. 03 2024

Source Page: Compulsory purchase process: guidance
Document: (PDF)

Found: 191.1 The Secreta ry of Sta te for Education can com pulsor ily purchase land that is required by a

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Non-Departmental Publication (Statistics)
Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Oct. 03 2024

Source Page: Local authority revenue expenditure and financing England: 2024 to 2025 budget individual local authority data
Document: (ODS)

Found: Aggregate External Finance (AEF) [note 1] Line number Description Total Grants £ thousand 715 Adult Education

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Non-Departmental Publication (News and Communications)
Office of the Schools Adjudicator

Oct. 03 2024

Source Page: Maritime Academy: 3 October 2024
Document: (PDF)

Found: The terms of the funding agreement between the trust and the Secretary of State for Education require

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