Question follow-through · 22512

Religion: Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to prevent secondary schools from using Religious Education lessons primarily to fill non-specialist teacher timetable capacity.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body: Department for Education
Tabled: 28 Aug 2026
Target answer date: 2 Sept 2026
Answer: 8 Sept 2026 · 11 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

28 Aug 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to prevent secondary schools from using Religious Education lessons primarily to fill non-specialist teacher timetable capacity.
2 Sept 2026
Target answer date
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8 Sept 2026
Answer published
High-quality teaching is the in-school factor that has the biggest positive impact on a child’s outcomes, which is why we committed to recruiting 6,500 additional secondary, special school and further education teachers over the course of this parliament....

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