Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans he has to bring forward legislative proposals to ensure that school governing boards produce publicly accessible minutes of their meetings.

The School Governance (Roles, Procedures and Allowances Regulations (2013)) sets out the requirement for the governing bodies of maintained schools to make their minutes available for inspection to any interested person. The current model articles of association for academies require the same of them.

We are satisfied that these requirements help to ensure that there is transparency and public accountability about governing body meetings for all schools and have no plans for additional legislation in this area.