Question follow-through · 10588
Social Mobility
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department is taking steps to improve social mobility.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 22 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 24 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 29 Oct 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
More questions by this MP on Education and skills
- Universities: China · 4 Nov 2024
- Children in Care: Young Offenders · 4 Nov 2024
- Schools: Knives · 5 Nov 2024
- Special Educational Needs · 5 Nov 2024
- Teaching Aids · 5 Nov 2024
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Recorded timeline
22 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department is taking steps to improve social mobility.
24 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
29 Oct 2024
Answer published
Every child should have every opportunity to succeed, no matter who they are, where they are from, or how much their parents earn. Too often opportunity for children and young people is defined by their background. That’s why this government is committed ...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Universities: China
4 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential implications for national security of the proportion of funding for universities from China.
Children in Care: Young Offenders
4 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent steps her Department has taken to provide rehabilitation support to children who have lived in care who are (a) in police custody and (b) serving custodial sentences.
Schools: Knives
5 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has had recent discussions with the Secretary of State for the Home Department on tackling knife crime in schools.
Special Educational Needs
5 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department plans to allocate new (a) funding and (b) resources to support children with special educational needs and disabilities in schools.
Teaching Aids
5 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure parents have access to the materials used to teach their children in (a) relationships, sex and health education, (b) religious education and (c) other lessons.
Special Educational Needs: Employment
5 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has made an assessment of the (a) adequacy of and (b) potential merits of undertaking a review of provider access legislation for students with SEND to assist them with acquiring employment.
Commonwealth and Monarchy: Education
6 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to promote awareness of the (a) Commonwealth of Nations, (b) Monarchy and (c) Commonwealth realms in (i) schools in England.
Education: Digital Technology
6 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to increase digital learning opportunities across (a) schools and (b) colleges.
Foster Care and Kinship Care: Finance
13 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has made a comparative assessment of financial support available to (a) kinship and (b) foster carers.
Children: English Language
14 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of children in South Basildon and East Thurrock constituency do not have English as their first language.
Special Educational Needs: Essex
14 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure equal access to funding for special educational needs and disabilities services in Essex.
Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education
15 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will set out a timeline for the publication of guidance on Relationship, Sex and Health Education.