To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many officials in her Department have been reassigned from other projects to work on the development of the Advanced British Standard; and what the names of those other projects are.
Answered on
21 November 2023
Delivering a world class education to all pupils is one of Government’s top priorities. The Advanced British Standard (ABS) is a cross cutting reform which will affect a number of different areas of policy across the Department, and as such officials from a range of policy teams, with a variety of skills and experience, have been brought together to develop and deliver the ABS. The Department has made huge strides in the last decade in driving up educational standards and improving outcomes for young people and will continue to utilise expertise in the Department to do this.