Question follow-through · 22878
Basic Skills
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that young people leave school equipped with relevant skills for working life.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 8 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 13 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 16 Jan 2025 · 8 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
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- Educational Institutions: Protection · 9 Jan 2025
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- Special Educational Needs: Transport · 13 Jan 2025
- Primary Education: School Libraries · 20 Jan 2025
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Recorded timeline
8 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that young people leave school equipped with relevant skills for working life.
13 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Jan 2025
Answer published
The government has established an independent Curriculum and Assessment Review, covering ages 5 to 18, chaired by Professor Becky Francis CBE.The review will seek to deliver a curriculum that ensures children and young people leave compulsory education re...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Academies: Complaints
9 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to introduce a standardised complaints process for academy schools.
Educational Institutions: Protection
9 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of introducing a national safeguarding framework for all educational institutions including academies.
Special Educational Needs: Employers' Contributions
13 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the increase in employer National Insurance contributions on SEND transport to educational institutions.
Special Educational Needs: Transport
13 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children with SEND use provided travel to and from educational facilities (a) nationally, (b) in Essex and (c) in South Basildon and East Thurrock constituency.
Primary Education: School Libraries
20 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to make libraries in primary schools a statutory requirement.
Primary Education: School Libraries
20 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of libraries in primary schools for the development of primary school students.
Primary Education: School Libraries
20 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of primary school library provision in (a) schools in deprived areas and (b) schools in affluent areas.
Financial Services: Education
21 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to develop financial literacy education in (a) primary and (b) secondary schools to improve financial resilience in younger people.
Academies: Standards
29 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to (a) enforce and (b) monitor safeguarding standards in academy schools.
Crimes of Violence: Children and Young People
4 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to keep children and young people safe from violence (a) on the streets and (b) in schools.
Health Education: Food and Nutrition
4 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans she has to improve education on food and nutrition in (a) primary and (b) secondary schools.
School Meals: Nutrition
4 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure that school meals are (a) balanced and (b) nutritional.