Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will commission or undertake a review into whether school teachers' working hours are excessive; and if she will make a statement.

Removing unnecessary workload for teachers is a priority for this government. We are commissioning a biennial survey to track teacher workload, starting in spring 2016.

This is an important part of our action plan, published in our response to the Workload Challenge survey, to remove unnecessary teacher workload. In total, 43,832 people accessed the survey and 20,533 of those provided substaitive answers to one or more of the open questions. We have set up three review groups to address the three biggest issues emerging from the Workload Challenge – ineffective marking, use of planning and resources, and data management.