Question follow-through · 58045
Pupil Premium: Disadvantaged
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a new Pupil Premium subcategory for persistently disadvantaged pupils.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 6 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 10 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 16 Jun 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
6 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a new Pupil Premium subcategory for persistently disadvantaged pupils.
10 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Jun 2025
Answer published
The department recognises that there are disparities in outcomes for children attracting pupil premium and we are committed to doing more to improve the life chances of our most disadvantaged children, breaking the link between background and future succe...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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