Gerald Howarth – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Education

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Gerald Howarth on 2015-01-15.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make it her policy that VAT should be applied to sixth form colleges in the same terms as mainstream schools with sixth forms.

Mr David Laws

Ministers have said publicly (since December 2013) that they are sympathetic to sixth form colleges’ requests for assistance towards their VAT costs, but that it is not affordable to provide this in financial years 2014-15 or 2015-16.