Question follow-through · 60771
Pre-school Education: Primary Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to improve the transition from play-based to formal learning.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 17 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 19 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 24 Jun 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
17 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to improve the transition from play-based to formal learning.
19 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
24 Jun 2025
Answer published
Children’s earliest years are crucial to their health, development and life chances. The early years foundation stage (EYFS) statutory framework sets the standards and requirements that all early years providers must follow to ensure every child has the b...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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