Question follow-through · 59220
Schools: Clothing
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of state-funded schools currently permit the wearing of the (a) niqab and (b) burqa by (i) students and (ii) staff; and whether her Department has issued any guidance on uniform pol
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 11 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 13 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 19 Jun 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Recorded timeline
11 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of state-funded schools currently permit the wearing of the (a) niqab and (b) burqa by (i) students and (ii) staff; and whether her Department has issued any guidance on uniform pol
13 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Jun 2025
Answer published
The department has published non-statutory guidance on developing a school uniform policy, which is available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-uniform/school-uniforms. The guidance sets out that it is for the governing body of a sch...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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