Question follow-through · 118095
Children's Play: Primary Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if her Department will review best practice guidance for play-based learning for five to seven year-olds.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 4 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 9 Mar 2026
- Answer
- 8 Apr 2026 · 35 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
4 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if her Department will review best practice guidance for play-based learning for five to seven year-olds.
9 Mar 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Apr 2026
Answer published
I refer the hon. Member for Epsom and Ewell to the answer of 23 March 2026 to Question 117074.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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