Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department is taking steps to make a risk assessment of allowing specialist teams to retrieve books, coursework and other items which have been inaccessible at St Leonard’s Catholic School since September 2023.

St Leonard’s Catholic School has an assigned project director who has been working with the trust and school leadership team, providing support and direction. As part of this work, the Department has commissioned a risk assessment. The decant of coursework and other items, as requested by the school, was completed on Friday 27 October.