Question follow-through · 54948
Schools: Transport
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking support (a) schools and (b) parents with school transport in rural areas.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 30 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 3 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 9 Jun 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
30 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking support (a) schools and (b) parents with school transport in rural areas.
3 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 Jun 2025
Answer published
The department’s home-to-school travel policy aims to make sure that no child is prevented from accessing education by a lack of transport. Local authorities are responsible for arranging free home-to-school travel for eligible children. A child is eligib...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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