Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure its services are available online; and if she will make a statement.

The Department is working closely with Cabinet Office’s Government Digital Services (GDS) to embed a ‘digital by default’ approach to the development of all of our services and to ensure that our services have the appropriate high-quality, cost effective support in place for those who need help to use them. In December 2014, an annual report will be published on GOV.UK outlining the progress we have made against the key 16 actions stipulated by GDS to ensure that our services are available online. We are currently refreshing our departmental digital strategy for 2015 and beyond.

The current strategy is published online at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/department-for-education-departmental-digital-strategy