Question follow-through · 36528
Academies: Asbestos
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what requirement her Department has placed on academy trusts to monitor school buildings where asbestos is present.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 7 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 11 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 17 Mar 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
7 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what requirement her Department has placed on academy trusts to monitor school buildings where asbestos is present.
11 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Mar 2025
Answer published
The department takes the safety of children and those who work with them incredibly seriously, which is why we expect all academy trusts, local authorities and governing bodies as responsible bodies to have robust plans in place to manage asbestos in scho...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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