Question follow-through · 83154
Extracurricular Activities: Summertime
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of adopting single/double summer time on children’s access to after-school (a) sports and (b) outdoor activities.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 17 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 21 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 27 Oct 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
17 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of adopting single/double summer time on children’s access to after-school (a) sports and (b) outdoor activities.
21 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
27 Oct 2025
Answer published
The government believes the current daylight-saving arrangements represent the optimal use of the available daylight across the UK. Therefore, we have no plans to introduce double summertime, permanent summertime, or other such changes which would require...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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