Question follow-through · 99619
Primary Education: Assessments
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what consideration her Department has given to alternative models of primary assessment.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 12 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 16 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 22 Dec 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
12 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what consideration her Department has given to alternative models of primary assessment.
16 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
22 Dec 2025
Answer published
Primary assessments were reviewed as part of the independent Curriculum and Assessment Review, led by Professor Becky Francis. The review panel published their final report last month, concluding that the primary assessment system is generally working wel...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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