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Sixth Form Colleges: VAT

Question for Department for Education

UIN 4388, tabled on 25 June 2015

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the VAT costs incurred by sixth form colleges in each of the last five years; and if she will make a statement.

Answered on

30 June 2015

The Department for Education estimates that VAT accounts for about 3% of sixth form colleges’ expenditure each year.

The Education Funding Agency does not collect financial information from sixth form colleges in such a way that allows us to make a more precise year on year calculation of their VAT costs.

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