Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department plans to take to publish performance data for academy chains.

In March 2015 the Department published a consultative statistical working paper proposing performance measures for multi-academy trusts[1].

In addition, the Department’s school performance tables now allow parents and others to more easily see which academies are within a multi-academy trust and the information for each academy, including their academic performance and Ofsted judgements[2].

Ofsted also carries out focused inspections of groups of academies within multi-academy trusts and these outcomes are published[3].

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/schools-in-academy-chains-and-las-performance-measures

[2] http://www.education.gov.uk/schools/performance/

[3] http://reports.ofsted.gov.uk/resources/local-authority-school-improvement-arrangements-inspections-and-focused-school-inspections