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Private schools urged to spend charity tax breaks on poorer pupils
By Miranda Green and Nicholas Timmins
Published: December 22 2004 02:00 | Last updated: December 22 2004 02:00

Private schools should spend the �100m a year they receive in charitable tax breaks to educate pupils from poorer backgrounds, a minister said yesterday.

However, the Independent Schools Council insisted that a third of pupils in charitable schools were already given some help with fees amounting to three times the sum received in tax breaks."