Question follow-through · 40152
Pupils: Mobile Phones
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make a comparative assessment of trends in the levels of academic attainment from children in schools that (a) have and (b) have not banned smartphones in the last 12 months.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 21 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 25 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 31 Mar 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
21 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make a comparative assessment of trends in the levels of academic attainment from children in schools that (a) have and (b) have not banned smartphones in the last 12 months.
25 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
31 Mar 2025
Answer published
Schools should prohibit the use of mobile phones and other smart technology with similar functionality to mobile phones throughout the school day, including during lessons, the time between lessons, breaktimes and lunchtime, as set out in the ‘Mobile phon...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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