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Schools

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has considered allowing local education authorities to open new maintained schools.

answeredDepartment for Education

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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

  1. 9 Jul 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has considered allowing local education authorities to open new maintained schools.

  2. 11 Jul 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 17 Jul 2025

    Answer published

    Through the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill, the government is removing the legal presumption that all new schools are opened as academies, allowing local authorities to welcome proposals for all types of school, and to put forward their own proposa...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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