Written Question·Department for Education·UIN 59220

Schools: Clothing

Tabled: 11 June 2025
Answered: 19 June 2025

Question

Rupert Lowe

Restore Britain — Great Yarmouth

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of state-funded schools currently permit the wearing of the (a) niqab and (b) burqa by (i) students and (ii) staff; and whether her Department has issued any guidance on uniform pol

Answer

Catherine McKinnell
The department has published non-statutory guidance on developing a school uniform policy, which is available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-uniform/school-uniforms. The guidance sets out that it is for the governing body of a sch...
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