Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when his Department plans to publish a response to the report published by the Social Mobility Commission entitled, State of the Nation 2018-19: Social Mobility in Great Britain Social Mobility in Great Britain.

Social mobility is one of my right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Education’s top priorities. We welcome the thorough analysis in the Social Mobility Commission’s State of the Nation 2018-19 report, and the important work that Dame Martina Milburn and her commissioners are doing to promote social mobility across the United Kingdom.

We are going through the recommendations in the report carefully, however in keeping with previous reports, we do not plan to publish a formal government response.