Sixth Form Colleges: VAT

Department for Education written question – answered at on 30 June 2015.

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Photo of Peter Kyle Peter Kyle Labour, Hove

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.

Photo of Sam Gyimah Sam Gyimah The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Education

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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