Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what discussions he has had with Google on offering G Suite Enterprise for Education free of charge to schools to assist with remote learning.

In the first instance the Department’s primary goal was to respond to the demand and to ensure that schools are set up with a robust remote learning platform, offering schools the basic functionality needed to continue delivering remote education. The Department is working with Google to offer their standard free licence. The Department continues to work with Google and schools regularly to monitor how we can make improvements to the programme and are keeping this under constant review.