Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to Written Ministerial Statement HCWS265 what the timescale is for establishing whether local authorities commissioned tests from Trimega.

Government officials have written to all local councils in England asking them to review whether they commissioned forensic hair strand tests for drug and alcohol use by Trimega Laboratories Limited during the period January 2010 to April 2014, and have requested that they do this by 30 November 2017.