Question follow-through · 78331
Further Education: Qualifications
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what her Department's timetable is for the completion of its review of post-16 qualifications.
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
- 10 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 14 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 20 Oct 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
More questions by this MP on Education and skills
- BTEC Qualifications and Vocational Education: Students · 16 Oct 2025
- Citizenship: Curriculum · 17 Nov 2025
- Citizenship: Education · 17 Nov 2025
- Citizenship: Teachers · 17 Nov 2025
- Citizenship: Teachers · 17 Nov 2025
Shared topic keywords suggest a connection; they do not establish a follow-up.
Recorded timeline
10 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what her Department's timetable is for the completion of its review of post-16 qualifications.
14 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 Oct 2025
Answer published
Through our Plan for Change, the government is building a skills system that will drive forward opportunity and deliver the growth that our economy needs. Students deserve high quality qualifications, and we must continue to develop and improve qualificat...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
Strong links require the same MP, department and exact heading. Other same-department questions are shown as unreviewed candidates, not as confirmed follow-ups. No debate link is asserted unless a stable source relationship exists.
BTEC Qualifications and Vocational Education: Students
16 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential implications for her policies of trends in the number of students studying (a) BTECs and (b) other level 3 qualifications.
Citizenship: Curriculum
17 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure that Citizenship is treated on an equal footing with other statutory National Curriculum subjects within Ofsted’s inspection framework.
Citizenship: Education
17 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure that Ofsted (a) inspections and (b) public reporting properly reflect schools’ statutory obligations to deliver Citizenship education.
Citizenship: Teachers
17 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure that specialist Citizenship teachers are recruited and retained; and what steps she is taking to extend bursaries to this subject.
Citizenship: Teachers
17 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to introduce a funded programme of national CPD to build teacher confidence in delivering Citizenship education.
Teachers: Recruitment
17 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many new teachers have been recruited since July 2024; and how many of those are citizenship teachers.
Citizenship: Teachers
17 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the exclusion of citizenship from the teacher training bursary list on the (a) recruitment of specialist teachers and (b) ability of schools to
Citizenship: Teachers
4 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 17 November 2025 to Question 91415 on Citizenship: Teachers, what steps she is taking to train and support teachers to teach citizenship as a national curriculum subject at Key Stages
Citizenship: Teachers
4 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 17 November 2025 to Question 91414 on Citizenship: Teaching, what method her Department uses to assess whether citizenship is a shortage subject in schools in the absence of subject-sp
Arts: Vocational Guidance
20 Feb 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of the careers advice in (a) schools, (b) further education settings and (c) higher education settings for young people wishing to pursue a career