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To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of ending compulsory written national curriculum assessments for key stage one students.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 3 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 5 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 11 Mar 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
3 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of ending compulsory written national curriculum assessments for key stage one students.
5 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Mar 2025
Answer published
End of key stage 1 national curriculum tests and teacher assessments have been non-statutory since the 2023/24 academic year. Following the 2017 consultation on primary assessment, a decision was made by the previous administration to make these assessmen...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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