Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what her policy is on assessments at the end of primary school.

Assessment in primary schools is a fundamental part of ensuring that every pupil acquires the sound grasp of the basics of literacy and numeracy that they need in order to succeed at secondary school and in later life. That is why pupils in Year 6 sit statutory tests in English reading, grammar, punctuation and spelling, and mathematics. We also collect teacher assessment data for English writing.

We have made clear our intention to establish a settled, proportionate primary assessment system for the long term, and we have recently conducted a public consultation on our proposals to achieve this. Further announcements will be made once we have considered the responses to that consultation.