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Teachers: Political Impartiality

Asked by Lee AndersonReform UKDepartment for EducationTabled Answered 21 November 2025UIN 88804

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure teachers in (a) primary and (b) secondary schools remain politically neutral when teaching.

Answered by Georgia Gould

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

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