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Schools: Political Impartiality

Asked by Lee AndersonReform UKDepartment for EducationTabled Answered 17 July 2025UIN 66278

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure political (a) neutrality and (b) balance in (i) primary and (ii) secondary schools.

Answered by Catherine McKinnell

I refer the hon. Member for Ashfield to the answer of 9 April 2025 to Question 43267.

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