Question follow-through · 17689
Pupil Exclusions
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to help tackle the practice of off-rolling.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 3 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 6 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 6 Dec 2024 · 3 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
- Reading · 9 Feb 2026
- Pre-school Education: Reading · 9 Feb 2026
- Pupils: Disadvantaged · 8 Jul 2026
Shared topic keywords suggest a connection; they do not establish a follow-up.
Recorded timeline
3 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to help tackle the practice of off-rolling.
6 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
6 Dec 2024
Answer published
The government is clear that off-rolling is an unacceptable practice and the department continues to work with Ofsted to tackle it.Ofsted takes any use of unlawful exclusions and off-rolling very seriously. Where evidence of off-rolling is found by inspec...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
Strong links require the same MP, department and exact heading. Other same-department questions are shown as unreviewed candidates, not as confirmed follow-ups. No debate link is asserted unless a stable source relationship exists.
Reading
9 Feb 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how her Department plans to promote the National Year of Reading within early years policy and strategy.
Pre-school Education: Reading
9 Feb 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how her Department plans to promote the National Year of Reading within early years policy and strategy.
Pupils: Disadvantaged
8 Jul 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to tackle the under-achievement of persistently disadvantaged pupils.