Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to Ministerial speeches published on his Department's website, whether he has made a recent assessment of the accuracy of transcripts that are labelled as transcript of the speech, exactly as it was delivered, as opposed to check against delivery.

Wherever possible a speech transcript will be checked by a member of the department’s communications team or other members of the private office staff who are attending the speaking event, or watching it if it is being broadcast.

This will then be published on the department’s website as ‘as delivered’. Where it is not possible for this verification to take place, the last cleared transcript is published with ‘check against delivery’.