Question follow-through · 66283
Schools: Transport
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will review the statutory walking distance for free school transport.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 9 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 11 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 17 Jul 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
9 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will review the statutory walking distance for free school transport.
11 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Jul 2025
Answer published
The department’s home-to-school travel policy aims to make sure that no child is prevented from accessing education by a lack of transport.Local authorities must arrange free home-to-school travel for children of compulsory school age, 5 to 16, who attend...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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