Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether any work is being undertaken by the Social Mobility Commission in the absence of a chair or commissioners.

The Commission Secretariat continues to deliver routine functions such as responding to enquiries on the State of the Nation report and previously published research reports; managing research projects that were agreed by the former Chair and board of commissioners as part of their research programme; scoping new projects and preparing for the incoming Chair and commissioners.