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Non-Domestic Rating (Multipliers and Private Schools) Bill

We have heard categorically from Labour that private schools are businesses. They see themselves as part of the community and as charities.

Now that they are seen as businesses, they will act as businesses and will have to look to raise revenue from all their sports facilities and anything else that they willingly gave away to the state system. Private schools work with the state system and ensure that there is support for the state system—that is the community basis of what schooling is about. Does my hon. Friend share my concern that defining them as businesses will be a big problem?