Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of ending the cap on faith school admissions.

My Rt. Hon. friend, the Secretary of State for Education, announced on 1 May 2024 that the department are consulting on faith designation reforms for new and existing free schools and special academies. This is available on Hansard at: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-statements/detail/2024-05-01/hcws437.

​​The consultation will run for seven weeks, closing on 20 June 2024. The department will then carefully consider all responses to the consultation and use them to inform the department’s recommendations for better meeting the policy objectives of faith schools.

​The government’s response will be published on the GOV.UK website within twelve weeks following closure of the consultation.