Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what guidance his Department has issued to schools on the pricing of school uniforms.

It is for the governing body of a school (or in the case of academies, the academy trust) to decide rules relating to appearance, including whether there should be a school uniform, what it will be, and how it is sourced.

The Department has issued best practice guidance on school uniform, which emphasises the need for schools to give highest priority to cost considerations. The guidance sets out that no school uniform should be so expensive as to leave pupils or their families feeling unable to apply to, or attend, a school of their choice.

The Department’s guidance is available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-uniform.