Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what progress the Government has made in strengthening the (a) rights of parents of summer-born children to defer the year of their child's entry to school and (b) right for a child to remain in the same academic year irrespective of changes in school or local authority; and when the Government plans to consult on proposed changes to the Admission Code.

We are concerned that some summer born children, whose parents opt to defer entry, may be missing the reception year where the essential teaching of early reading and arithmetic takes place. We are giving careful consideration to how we might make any changes. Further information will be available in due course.