Asked by: Andrew Turner (Conservative - Isle of Wight)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what her policy is on the provision of learning outside of the classroom.
Answered by Nick Gibb
Field trips and educational visits are important and have a key role to play in children’s education.
It is for schools to use their professional judgement to decide how their activities deliver a broad and balanced curriculum and to plan lessons and use their budgets accordingly.
Asked by: Andrew Turner (Conservative - Isle of Wight)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what public consultations her Department has conducted since January 2014; and how many responses her Department has received to each of those consultations.
Answered by Nick Gibb
The Department for Education has conducted 49 consultations since January 2014, and has received a total of 12,891 responses. The list of consultations and the number of responses received is attached.