Schools: Uniforms
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will commission a review into the potential impact of school uniform pricing on the average price of school uniforms.
Answered by Catherine McKinnell
The department keeps the price of school uniforms under regular review and recently published its latest research on the cost of school uniforms, which is available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cost-of-school-uniforms-survey-2023.
The department also already publishes statutory guidance on the costs of school uniform.
However, too many families still tell the department that the cost of school uniform remains a financial burden. That is why, as part of the Kings Speech, the department has committed to legislate to limit the number of expensive branded items of uniform and PE kit that schools can require.
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