Written Question·Department for Education·UIN 23162
Schools: Academic Year
Tabled: 10 January 2025
Answered: 20 January 2025
Question
Mohammad Yasin
Labour — Bedford
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has made a recent assessment of the potential merits of (a) revising the school calendar and (b) reducing the length of the school summer holidays.
Answer
Catherine McKinnellThe department does not currently have any plans to propose changes to the school calendar or to the setting of school holidays.School holidays are not determined at national level, they are decided locally by trusts, schools and local authorities dependi...
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