The Government plans to remove the VAT exemption and business rates relief for private schools
Private schools “have the means” to help children with special educational needs at risk of being priced out by plans to apply VAT to fees, the Health Secretary has said.
Pushed on how this will work for children who do not have that statement, Mr Streeting said independent schools have the means to deal with those situations. He said he would tell private schools that are “pleading poverty” that “if you’re worried about whether children in your schools will continue to access your schools, you’ll have to cut your cloth in the way that state schools have had to do.”
Labour MP Rachael Maskell has urged her party to perform a last-minute U-turn on the policy ahead of Wednesday’s Budget.
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