Oral QuestionDepartment for Education

What steps his Department is taking to help ensure political impartiality in schools.

Tabled: 17 May 2022Answered: 23 May 2022

Asked by

Gareth Bacon

ConservativeOrpington

Answering Minister

the Secretary of State for Education

Answer from Hansard

The Prime Minister

I thank my hon. Friend for raising this case and express my sincere condolences to Holly’s family. I cannot begin to imagine the intense distress that they have experienced. My hon. Friend will know that the ambassador to France has raised Holly’s case with the French prosecutor general, and I know that the Minister for Europe, my hon. Friend the Member for Cardiff South and Penarth (Stephen Doughty), has set out further steps that can be taken and is ready to support the family. In the light of his question, I will reflect on whether anything more can be done.