| Heading: |
Schools: Academic Year |
| Question ID: |
1811830 |
| UIN: |
59269 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-06-11 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5160 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Jenny Riddell-Carpenter
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Jenny Riddell-Carpenter
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of taking steps to grant local authorities greater flexibility in setting school term dates. |
| Is named day: |
true |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-17 |
| 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: |
Local authorities already have responsibility for setting term dates for schools where they are the employer, including community schools, community special schools, voluntary controlled schools, pupil referral units and maintained nursery schools. These ... |
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| Answering body ID: |
60 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Education |
| Tweeted: |
true |