Helen Jones – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Education

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Helen Jones on 2016-03-08.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much funding her Department has made available for training teachers to undertake the new key stage 1 and key stage 2 tests.

Nick Gibb

Schools are provided with general funding to teach the programmes of study, as set out in the national curriculum, to their pupils and to administer the statutory tests. Teaching the curriculum provides the best possible preparation for pupils to undertake the new key stage 1 and key stage 2 tests.