Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when he plans to bring publish a consultation on amending the School Admissions Code to enable summer-born children can be admitted to a reception class at the age of five when their parents believe it to be in the best interest of the child.

The Department remains committed to amending the School Admissions Code so that summer born children can be admitted to a reception class at the age of five when their parents believe it to be in their best interests.

The Department is giving careful consideration to how we might make these changes in a way that avoids unintended consequences elsewhere in the system. Any changes to the School Admissions Code will require a full statutory process. The Department will consider the appropriate time for consulting on these changes in the context of competing pressures on the parliamentary timetable.