Question follow-through · 65452
School Support Staff Negotiating Body
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure the independence of the School Support Staff Negotiating Body.
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
- 7 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 9 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 15 Jul 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Education and skills
- Special Educational Needs · 9 Sept 2025
- Special Educational Needs: North West · 9 Sept 2025
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- Children: Poverty · 27 Oct 2025
- Pupils: Working Class · 13 Jan 2026
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Recorded timeline
7 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure the independence of the School Support Staff Negotiating Body.
9 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
15 Jul 2025
Answer published
The School Support Staff Negotiating Body (SSSNB) is being established in primary legislation through the Employment Rights Bill, which was introduced in Parliament within the first 100 days of government on 10 October 2024. The Bill is currently in the H...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Special Educational Needs
9 Sept 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to help ensure that education, health and care plans for SEND children are issued by local authorities within five weeks.
Special Educational Needs: North West
9 Sept 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to help support local authorities in the North West to (a) process and (b) issue education, health and care plans for SEND children.
Special Educational Needs
9 Sept 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to (a) reduce class sizes and (b) provide focused support in maintained special schools.
Children: Poverty
27 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to include measures to support children in the deepest poverty in the forthcoming Child Poverty Strategy.
Pupils: Working Class
13 Jan 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help improve levels of attainment among working class pupils.
Special Educational Needs
13 Jan 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help improve SEND provision in mainstream schools.
Pupils: Absenteeism
13 Jan 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help reduce the level of school absences among working class students.
Students: Loans
13 Jan 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the level of interest rates on student loans.
Basic Skills and Financial Services: Secondary Education
13 Jan 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will take steps to include financial literacy and life skills education as a mandatory and assessed part of the secondary school curriculum.
Basic Skills and Financial Services: Secondary Education
13 Jan 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of financial literacy and basic life skills education in secondary schools.
Literacy: North West
20 Feb 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to improve literacy rates among children in the North West.
Pre-school Education: Reading
20 Feb 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help encourage reading in early years settings.