Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has made a recent assessment of the effectiveness of the Regional Department for Education Directors.

Regional Directors (RDs) are Senior Civil Servants who act on behalf of the Secretary of State and are held to account by the Director General for Regions Group. Their performance is managed through the normal and existing service arrangements for Senior Civil Servants.

The Department publishes annual reports relating to school and academies performance, Special Educational Needs and Disabilities, and children’s social care, in which the work of RDs will be included.