Question follow-through · 84164
Student Wastage
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assessment of the potential implications for her policies of trends in the number of students who are at risk of being withdrawn from their study programme for not attending their GCSE retak
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
- 22 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 27 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 31 Oct 2025 · 9 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
- Further Education · 24 Oct 2025
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- Written question 29938 · 15 Sept 2026
Shared topic keywords suggest a connection; they do not establish a follow-up.
Recorded timeline
22 Oct 2025
Question tabled
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assessment of the potential implications for her policies of trends in the number of students who are at risk of being withdrawn from their study programme for not attending their GCSE retak
27 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
31 Oct 2025
Answer published
I refer the hon. Member for Wyre Forest to the answer of 31 October 2025 to Question 83275.
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.
Further Education
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Physical Education: Obesity
20 Feb 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of changes to funding for physical education and sports on child obesity.
Financial Services: Adult Education
20 Feb 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans her Department has for improving provision of financial education as part of the adult education curriculum.
Written question 29937
15 Sept 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what criteria will determine whether a child or young person receives support through an Individual Support Plan; and what steps she will take to ensure consistency in access to that support between local areas
Written question 29938
15 Sept 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what criteria will be used to determine which children and young people will be eligible for an Education, Health and Care Plan under the proposed reformed SEND system.
Written question 29939
15 Sept 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what safeguards will be put in place for children and young people who, following a review at a transition point, move from an Education, Health and Care Plan to an Individual Support Plan.
Written question 29940
15 Sept 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the principal factors driving the increase in the number of Education, Health and Care Plans; and what proportion of the associated increase in expenditure she attribu
Written question 29941
15 Sept 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what her planned timetable is to introducing the Education for All Bill.