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Grammar Schools: Travel

Question for Department for Education

UIN 143180, tabled on 11 May 2018

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to item 13 in table 2.1 of the Spring Budget 2017, whether it is still his policy to provide free travel to selective schools at the cost of £5 million per year.

Answered on

16 May 2018

The Department will set out plans for the £5 million fund for transport to selective schools for disadvantaged pupils in due course. The Selective Schools Expansion Fund launched on 11 May and the Memorandum of Understanding agreed with the Grammar School Heads Association, will ensure that selective schools take effective action to improve access to selective schools for disadvantaged pupils.

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