Question follow-through · 29557
Academic Freedom
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recourse (a) academics and (b) other people will have who believe that they have had their free speech curtailed, in the context of her proposals for the implementation of the Higher Education (Freedom of
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 6 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 12 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 18 Feb 2025 · 12 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
6 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recourse (a) academics and (b) other people will have who believe that they have had their free speech curtailed, in the context of her proposals for the implementation of the Higher Education (Freedom of
12 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
18 Feb 2025
Answer published
For academics, staff, and external speakers, the amended Office for Students’ (OfS) complaints scheme will be a route of redress through which staff, external speakers and members who believe higher education (HE) providers have breached their duties will...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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Homelessness and Offences against Children
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19 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, on what date the minutes of her meeting with Katharine Birbalsingh were (a) written and (b) edited.
Trade Unions
1 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will publish the minutes of meetings that she has had with each trade union since 5 July 2025.
Department for Education: Official Hospitality
17 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the cost to the public purse was of the reception held for trade unions and other stakeholders in her Department on 11 July 2024; what (a) food and (b) alcohol was provided; and who attended.
Ramsden Hall Academy: Finance
28 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what funding is available to Ramsden Hall Academy to help secure the school site; and if she will meet the Rt hon. Member for Basildon and Billericay to discuss that funding.
Universities: China
28 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of Chinese influence in UK universities on national security.
Child Protection Authority
29 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent progress her Department has made on setting up the child protection authority.
Schools: Expenditure
29 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent estimate she has made of the proportion of school budgets spent on (a) teaching staff, (b) other staff and (c) non-staff costs.
Schools: Employers' Contributions
29 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate her Department has made of the proportion of the cost of the increase in employers National Insurance contributions that will be met by (a) additional support from her Department and (b) schools i
Teachers: Pay
2 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the oral contribution of the Minister for School Standards of 28 April 2025, Official Report, column 7, if she will make an estimate of the proportionate pay rise that could be provided to tea
Department for Education: Official Hospitality
16 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 29 April 2025 to Question 45907 on Department for Education: Official Hospitality, if she will make an assessment of the value for money of the event.
Schools: Cost Effectiveness
4 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the evidential basis is for her assessment that schools can make efficiency savings within budgets without reducing headcount.