Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department made of the adequacy of (a) laboratory facilities, (b) equipment and (c) classrooms used for STEM subjects in secondary schools.

The Department does not organise or hold assessments of facilities for the provision of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) subjects. It is the responsibility of individual schools to assess the laboratory facilities, equipment and classrooms that they need for teaching STEM subjects, and to decide how to use their budgets accordingly.