Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when the Education and Skills Funding Agency will reply to the letters of 23 June and 22 September 2022 from the hon. Member for Weston-Super-Mare on teaching days at local schools.

The Education and Skills Funding Agency sincerely apologises for the delay in responding to the hon. Member for Weston-Super-Mare’s correspondence.

The Department for Education, rather than the Education and Skills Funding Agency, is responsible for academy governance matters not relating to funding or finance, such as academies’ freedom to set their number of teaching days. Therefore, the Department will be responding to the hon. Member’s letters as a matter of urgency.