Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will publish a definition of coasting schools before the Second Reading of the Education and Adoption Bill.

Draft regulations on the definition of coasting will be published at Committee stage.

These will be based on performance over a number of years. The number of schools categorised as coasting will therefore vary from year to year, depending on the outcome of examination and test results.

The definition will focus on data, will reflect performance over time and will capture schools that are failing to support their pupils to fulfil their potential.