Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many times the Regional Schools Commissioner visited the (a) Collective Spirit Free School in Oldham and (b) the Manchester Creative Studio (i) prior to and (ii) after each of those school's most recent Ofsted inspection.

We do not collect central data on the number of individual visits by Regional School Commissioner’s (RSC) and their teams. The RSC works alongside a wider team including Education Advisers and the Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) to monitor, support and challenge academies, including Free Schools and Studio Schools.

Both Manchester Creative Studio and Collective Spirit have been monitored through regular Education Advisers visits to the schools and visits from the RSC’s team and ESFA. In addition, the RSC held several meetings with Trust Board members to ensure that the appropriate actions were being taken as a result of monitoring visits and following the Ofsted inspections.