Viscount Ridley – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Education

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Viscount Ridley on 2016-02-08.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what consideration they have given to the finding of the report An Unholy Mess, published by the Fair Admissions Campaign and the British Humanist Association last year, that a number of religiously selective schools have sought to require all parents to commit to supporting the particular religious ethos of the school as part of the admission process; and what assessment they have made of the impact of any such practice on the encouragement of applications from a diverse range of religious and non-religious backgrounds.

Lord Nash

I refer the Noble Lord to my response to questions HL5900 and HL5901, submitted to Parliament on 18 February 2016.