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Schools: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether schools receiving support from regional improvement for standards and excellence teams will have improvement progress measured by (a) those teams, (b) other teams in her Department and (c) Ofsted in a w

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
5 Feb 2025
Target answer date
10 Feb 2025
Answer
18 Feb 2025 · 13 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 5 Feb 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether schools receiving support from regional improvement for standards and excellence teams will have improvement progress measured by (a) those teams, (b) other teams in her Department and (c) Ofsted in a w

  2. 10 Feb 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 18 Feb 2025

    Answer published

    Ofsted plan to monitor the quality of schools which are under-performing on a regular basis. Regional Improvement for Standards and Excellence teams will also be checking on the implementation of the school’s improvement plan. If schools do not make suffi...

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Schools: Uniforms

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Schools: Uniforms

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21 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill, whether a badge (a) sewn onto or (b) otherwise affixed to a generic blazer will count towards the limits for branded items of school uniforms.

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Out-of-school Education

21 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to clause 25 8(b) of the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill, whether guidance will be issued as to what would count as exceptional circumstances.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Out-of-school Education

21 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to clause 25 of the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill, what the means is for appealing to the Secretary of State.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

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24 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the evidential basis is for the estimate that the new primary school breakfast programme will save parents £450 a year.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Educational Visits

27 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what information her Department holds on the number of school trips made annually, by (a) region (b) mode of transport.

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Educational Visits: Costs

3 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of Low Emission Zones on the cost of school trips made by coach by schools in (a) Greater London and (b) other parts of the country.