Question follow-through · 35907
Schools
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 17 February 2025 to Question 29762 on Cross sector partnerships, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of cooperation between state and private schools on state school
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 5 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 7 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 20 Mar 2025 · 15 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
5 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 17 February 2025 to Question 29762 on Cross sector partnerships, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of cooperation between state and private schools on state school
7 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 Mar 2025
Answer published
Around 70% of private schools affiliated with the Independent Schools Council hold charitable status. As charities, they are required to demonstrate public benefit and one way in which they do that is through partnerships with state schools. This activity...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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2 Feb 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of trends in national illiteracy levels; and what steps her Department is taking to ensure that groups at high risk of illiteracy receive adequate education.
Department for Education: Apprentices
16 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many apprentices her Department recruited in (a) 2022, (b) 2023, (c) 2024 and (d) 2025.
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Special Educational Needs: Out-of-school Education
13 May 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to her Department's White Paper entitled Every child achieving and thriving, published on 23 February 2026, what consideration was given to education otherwise than in school or at school (EOTIS/
Schools: Temperature
3 Jul 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her department is taking to ensure all schools have the necessary resources to maintain comfortable indoor temperatures during hot weather thereby preventing any disruption to studies.