Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that children and young people with dyslexia receive special access arrangements so that they are not disadvantaged in examinations.

The Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation (Ofqual), regulates the issue of access arrangements to examinations.

Conditions G6 and G7 in Ofqual’s General Conditions of Recognition require exam boards to have access arrangements in place and to publish details.

The Joint Council for Qualifications (JCQ) publishes the access arrangements on behalf of the exam boards (http://www.jcq.org.uk/exams-office/access-arrangements-and-special-consideration).