Labour's VAT on fees sums 'do not add up', warns ISC CEO
Posted on: 07 Oct 2025
Posted by: ISC Press Office
Julie Robinson, chief executive of the ISC, has highlighted figures showing almost 25,000 pupils have been forced out of independent schools since the general election – significantly more than previously predicted.
Speaking to The Telegraph, Ms Robinson said: "The decline in pupil numbers since the general election is now at least 25,000 – over eight times the fall the government predicted by this point.
"It is clear their sums do not add up on this policy, particularly when you take into account that this poll represents only open schools and so will not reflect the pupils displaced from over 80 mainstream independent schools that have closed in the past academic year."