Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department plans to include the performance management of teachers in the early years baseline assessment.

The procurement for the reception baseline assessment has followed all due commercial procedure. As such, no current or previous Secretary of State, Minister or Department official has held meetings with contractors in which details of the reception baseline assessment were discussed or in which contractors were encouraged to apply for this work before the specification and contract were made public.

The Department for Education does not plan to include the performance management of teachers in the reception baseline assessment.