Schools: Uniforms

(asked on 3rd March 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the average cost to parents of school uniforms.


Answered by
Nick Gibb Portrait
Nick Gibb
This question was answered on 11th March 2020

No school uniform should be so expensive as to leave pupils or their families feeling unable to apply to a school of their choice. The Government is pleased to support the Private Members' Bill to ‘Make provision for guidance about the cost aspects of school uniform policies’, which was introduced to Parliament on 5 February, in order to make guidance on the cost considerations for school uniform statutory at the earliest opportunity. This reflects the Government’s commitment to ensuring that school uniform costs are reasonable.

In 2015, the Department commissioned a survey on the cost of school uniform, which is available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cost-of-school-uniform-2015.

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