Question follow-through · 91311
Reading: Assessments
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps the Government is taking to ensure that the year 8 reading test is used to direct interventions and not be used as a bench marking exercise for schools.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 17 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 19 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 24 Nov 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
17 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps the Government is taking to ensure that the year 8 reading test is used to direct interventions and not be used as a bench marking exercise for schools.
19 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
24 Nov 2025
Answer published
This government is determined to drive up standards for young people. Reading holds the key to the rest of the curriculum, with pupils who struggle to read so often struggling across the board, particularly those from disadvantaged backgrounds.The departm...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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