Question follow-through · 10901
Schools: Travel
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has plans to review the statutory safe walking route distance of three miles for school travel.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 17 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 22 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 26 Jun 2026 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
17 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has plans to review the statutory safe walking route distance of three miles for school travel.
22 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
26 Jun 2026
Answer published
The department’s home-to-school travel policy aims to make sure that no child is prevented from accessing education by a lack of transport. Children of compulsory school age, 5 to 16, are eligible for free travel if they attend their nearest suitable scho...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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