Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the number of primary schools previously judged Outstanding by Ofsted rating who retain that status when re-inspected under the control of a (a) local authority and (b) multi-academy trust over the last ten years.

The department has not made such an assessment as between June 2012 and November 2020 schools judged to be Outstanding by Ofsted at their most recent inspection were exempt from further routine inspections. During this period, re-inspections of outstanding primary schools only took place if there were significant concerns and those schools would have been unrepresentative of primary schools in general.