Question follow-through · 59269
Schools: Academic Year
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of taking steps to grant local authorities greater flexibility in setting school term dates.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 11 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 17 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 17 Jun 2025 · 6 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, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of taking steps to grant local authorities greater flexibility in setting school term dates.
17 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Jun 2025
Answer published
Local authorities already have responsibility for setting term dates for schools where they are the employer, including community schools, community special schools, voluntary controlled schools, pupil referral units and maintained nursery schools. These ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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