Written Question·Department for Education·UIN 31826

Schools: Uniforms

Tabled: 21 February 2025
Answered: 3 March 2025

Question

Damian Hinds

ConservativeEast Hampshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill, whether the new rules on a maximum number of branded school uniform items are intended only to apply to new entrants to the school in the normal year

Answer

Catherine McKinnell
School uniform plays a valuable role in creating a sense of common identity among pupils and reducing visible inequalities. However, too many schools require high numbers of costly branded uniform items and it is right that this legislation limits the num...

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