Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much (a) further education colleges and (b) sixth form colleges paid in VAT in each of the last five years.

HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) publishes annual home VAT liabilities for each trade sector as defined by the ’Standard Industrial Classification of Economic Activities’. This is shown in Table 2.5 of the VAT Factsheet and includes home VAT liabilities for the ‘Education’ sector, and is available here: https://www.uktradeinfo.com/Statistics/Statistical%20Factsheets/VAT_Factsheet_16.xls

HMRC is not able to separate this data into amounts of VAT paid by further education and sixth form colleges.