According to one of my 'co-workers' who has an NPPL, yes. The ac he learned in all have VOR/ADF, even DME in some cases, and he was not shown how to use them or required to demonstrate them on the GST. Whereas the PPL(A) test requires things like a VOR cross cut, I seem to recall (or at least I was taught them and told they were one of my tools to use when lost, and we did some VOR tracking at Shawbury).
Tim