Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what safeguards her Department has put in place to ensure that input from schools and academy trusts involved in developing the proposed MIS procurement framework is assessed impartially; and whether participants are required to declare any current contractual dispute with a MIS supplier.

All participants of the department’s Management Information Systems (MIS) sector working group were required to complete a ‘conflicts of interests’ declaration. No declarations received identified a contractual dispute with an MIS supplier.