Question follow-through · 82764
Schools: Inspections
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of removing the subsidy for Ofsted inspections on (a) small and (b) specialist independent schools.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 16 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 20 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 30 Oct 2025 · 14 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
16 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of removing the subsidy for Ofsted inspections on (a) small and (b) specialist independent schools.
20 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
30 Oct 2025
Answer published
The department launched an eight-week consultation on 25 September 2025 on the subject of reducing the subsidy for Ofsted inspection fees. The consultation document is publicly available and sets out how Ofsted-inspected private schools will be affected b...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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