Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment his Department has made of regional inequalities in educational attainment in England.

The Department publishes the attainment of state-funded pupils at the end of Key Stage 2, Key Stage 4, and 16-18 study, for each region in England[1]. The headline measures for 2017/18 for each key stage are provided in the tables attached.

[1] Key Stage 2: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-key-stage-2.

Key Stage 4: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-gcses-key-stage-4.

16-18: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-attainment-at-19-years.