Fiona Bruce – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Education

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Fiona Bruce on 2016-01-14.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many responses her Department has received (a) through its online response form and (b) by email to its Out-of-school education settings: registration and inspection consultation.

Nick Gibb

The Government wants children to be educated in a safe environment without exposure to hateful and extremist views that undermine British values. The call for evidence on out-of-school education settings was launched on 26 November 2015 and ran for six and a half weeks closing on 11 January 2016.

Around 3,000 people completed the published response form, either online or manually. The Department for Education received a significant number of further representations to the consultation by email and post. All responses and representations are being logged, analysed and verified.

In line with Cabinet Office guidance, we will be publishing a response to the consultation in due course.