Oral QuestionDepartment for Education

If she will make a statement on her departmental responsibilities.

Tabled: 10 June 2025Answered: 16 June 2025

Asked by

Andy MacNae

LabourRossendale and Darwen

Answering Minister

the Secretary of State for Education

Answer from Hansard

The Minister for School Standards (Catherine McKinnell)

Labour is delivering a new era of high and rising school standards, because we know that when standards slip it is disadvantaged children who suffer, and we will not let that happen. That is why Labour’s regional improvement for standards and excellence teams are spearheading a stronger, faster system, prioritising stuck schools, sending in advisers with a proven track record of turning schools around, and backing that up with up to £20 million—