Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many times (a) Ministers and (b) officials of her Department have met the (i) Grammar School Heads' Association and (ii) National Association of Secondary Moderns in each of the last three years.

We do not keep a central record of all the meetings the Grammar School Heads' Association (GSHA) and the National Association of Secondary Moderns (NASM) may have had with DfE ministers or officials. A search of records, however, indicates that since February 2014, the GSHA met Ministers twice, first in December 2016 at a roundtable event to discuss academic selection, and once in February 2017 to discuss the National Funding Formula. Ministers also spoke at the GSHA Annual Conference in June 2014 and June 2016. On two occasions since February 2014, in April 2014 and April 2016, Ministers have attended and spoken at NASM events. Officials routinely meet with a wide range of stakeholders in the course of policy development, and have met the GSHA on a number of occasions since February 2014, including discussions following the publication of the ‘Schools That Work for Everyone’ consultation. We have no record of any meetings between officials and the NASM, or requests by the NASM to meet officials, during this period.