Business Rates: Tax Yields

Treasury written question – answered at on 7 November 2024.

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Photo of David Simmonds David Simmonds Opposition Whip (Commons), Shadow Minister (Levelling Up, Housing and Communities)

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to paragraph 5.69 of the Autumn Budget 2024, HC 295, what estimate her Department has made of the yearly change in business rates receipts from private schools in each of the next five financial years; and whether (a) her Department and (b) the Valuation Office Agency has made an estimate of the number of hereditaments that are expected to become liable to pay higher business rates.

Photo of James Murray James Murray The Exchequer Secretary

At Autumn Budget 2024, the Government reconfirmed that it will remove private schools’ eligibility for charitable rates relief under business rates in England from April 2025. This intervention will raise around £140 million per year.

Business rates retention means that local authorities retain a proportion of all business rates revenue. As such, the increase in rates receipts due to the reduction in charitable rates relief for private schools will be shared between central and local government.

There are approximately 2,440 private schools in England, of which around 1,140 are charities. The business rates system already provides an exemption for certain properties being used for disabled people. Additionally, the government will legislate to ensure that private schools providing “wholly or mainly” for pupils with an Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP) will retain their relief. Taken together, the Government expects that around 1,040 private schools will lose their charitable rate relief.

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