Question follow-through · 66278
Schools: Political Impartiality
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure political (a) neutrality and (b) balance in (i) primary and (ii) secondary schools.
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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
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Recorded timeline
9 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure political (a) neutrality and (b) balance in (i) primary and (ii) secondary schools.
11 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Jul 2025
Answer published
I refer the hon. Member for Ashfield to the answer of 9 April 2025 to Question 43267.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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