Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent discussions he has had with the Government's delivery partner Capita on reports of missing SATs papers.

The Standards and Testing Agency (STA) oversees the logistics and marking operation for assessments for almost 680,000 pupils in over 16,000 schools, including the collection, scanning, and marking of some 3.8 million test scripts. The vast majority of these were collected, scanned, and marked without any issues. STA is in constant communication with Capita over service delivery, including understanding and investigating the small number of instances where papers may be flagged as missing.

STA will work with Capita to identify lessons learned from the delivery of this year’s assessments so that service improvements can be implemented for the next test cycle.