Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when she plans to bring forward legislative proposals to determine the power to delegate decisions on academy orders to regional schools commissioners; who will have that power; and if she will make a statement.

The Secretary of State is able to delegate individual decisions within her remit to Regional Schools Commissioners without legislation, just as she can to other civil servants. She remains accountable for those decisions which are taken in her name.