Question follow-through · 23162
Schools: Academic Year
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has made a recent assessment of the potential merits of (a) revising the school calendar and (b) reducing the length of the school summer holidays.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 10 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 14 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 20 Jan 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has made a recent assessment of the potential merits of (a) revising the school calendar and (b) reducing the length of the school summer holidays.
14 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 Jan 2025
Answer published
The department does not currently have any plans to propose changes to the school calendar or to the setting of school holidays.School holidays are not determined at national level, they are decided locally by trusts, schools and local authorities dependi...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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