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Schools: Uniforms

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of the cost of (a) badges and (b) piping for school uniforms on household expenditure.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
28 Oct 2024
Target answer date
5 Nov 2024
Answer
5 Nov 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 28 Oct 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of the cost of (a) badges and (b) piping for school uniforms on household expenditure.

  2. 5 Nov 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 5 Nov 2024

    Answer published

    The department has not assessed the impact of the cost of specific designs for school uniforms on household expenditure. However, the department recently published its latest research on the cost of school uniforms, which is available here: https://www.go...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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