Question follow-through · 52220
State Education and Private Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to (a) promote and (b) support co-operation between the state and private education systems in England.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 14 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 16 May 2025
- Answer
- 22 May 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
14 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to (a) promote and (b) support co-operation between the state and private education systems in England.
16 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
22 May 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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Pupils: Violence
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