Question follow-through · 27558
Schools: Uniforms
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what guidance her Department provides to state-funded schools on the circumstances in which a pupil may decline to wear religious clothing required by a school's uniform policy.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 7 Sept 2026
- Target answer date
- 10 Sept 2026
- Answer
- 10 Sept 2026 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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- Written question 30074 · 15 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
7 Sept 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what guidance her Department provides to state-funded schools on the circumstances in which a pupil may decline to wear religious clothing required by a school's uniform policy.
10 Sept 2026
Target answer date
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10 Sept 2026
Answer published
The department does not routinely gather data on individual schools’ uniform policies and does not hold information on schools requiring articles of religious clothing. School leaders, including those of faith schools, are responsible for making decisions...
Official data retrieved 1 Oct 2026.
Later records
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Written question 30074
15 Sept 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the answer of 28 July 2026 to question 17814, whether her Department has (a) met with Kent County Council and (b) concluded whether their Communities of Schools model complies with her Department's