| Heading: |
Special Educational Needs: Assessments |
| Question ID: |
1786521 |
| UIN: |
39621 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-03-19 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5070 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Lisa Smart
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Lisa Smart
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of changes made by exam boards on pupils (a) with SEND and (b) with poor working memory. |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-03-28 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4125 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Catherine McKinnell
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| Answering Member handle: |
CMcKinnellMP
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@CMcKinnellMP
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| Answer text: |
It is vital that students with special educational needs and disabilities can access exams and assessments without disadvantage. The Equality Act 2010 requires exam boards to make reasonable adjustments where a student with disabilities would be at a subs... |
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| Answering body ID: |
60 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Education |
| Tweeted: |
true |