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Pupils: Uniforms

Volume 459: debated on Thursday 3 May 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills whether he plans to discuss removing VAT on school uniforms for over 14-year-olds with the Chancellor of the Exchequer. (135264)

The Department has no plans to discuss removing VAT on school uniforms for over 14-year-olds with the Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Current guidance on school uniform advises governing bodies to give high priority to cost when setting a school uniform policy, and states that no school uniform should be so expensive as to leave pupils or their families feeling socially excluded.