Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department allocates (a) personnel and (b) financial resources to monitoring the political views of educationalists.

As part of government business, the department works with a wide range of educationalists in order to inform effective policymaking. The department recognises it is important to listen to and consider a wide variety of views and perspectives.

The department does not allocate specific personnel or financial resources to monitor the political views of educationalists.

As is standard practice in most organisations, the department does carry out due diligence before engaging experts and speakers on a case-by-case basis.