Question follow-through · 87602
Home Education: Assessments
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department holds data on families with home-educated children who are unable to (a) secure a place in a GCSE examination centre and (b) afford exam entry fees.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 3 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 11 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 11 Nov 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
3 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department holds data on families with home-educated children who are unable to (a) secure a place in a GCSE examination centre and (b) afford exam entry fees.
11 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Nov 2025
Answer published
The department does not hold data on families with home educated children who are unable to secure a place in a GCSE examination centre or afford exam entry fees.The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill will introduce the first ever duty on local authori...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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