Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure that students who will miss (a) examinations and (b) assessments due to the covid-19 outbreak have clear information on what teacher assessments for their final GCSE grades will comprise; and what the status is of GCSE exams taken in year 10 is in that assessment.

Our latest guidance on GCSEs and A levels is set out below:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/coronavirus-covid-19-guidance-for-schools-and-other-educational-settings.

The independent qualifications regulator Ofqual is working very closely with exam boards to develop and implement a system for awarding grades this summer that is as fair as possible. Ofqual is consulting until 29 April on a range of aspects of that system, including the issues raised. The consultation is available at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/exceptional-arrangements-for-exam-grading-and-assessment-in-2020.

Ofqual will be responding on those issues as soon as possible after the consultation has closed.