Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 8 June 2016 to Question 39094, if she will provide the answer sought in that Question from the data collected in the consultation document.

We have worked with teachers, head teachers and unions as the primary assessment reforms have been introduced, and have listened to their concerns in supporting schools to adjust to the new system this year. We will continue to listen to and engage with the profession as the details of the new assessment arrangements are finalised and we build stability for future years.

As set out in the answer to PQ 39094, while the 2013 consultation was a valuable excerise to seeks views on aspects of policy, it was not designed to ask teachers and head teachers specifically to indicate their support for the principle of the assessment reforms which took effect this year. An answer to that question cannot, therefore, be derived from the data collected as part of that consultation.