Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to paragraph 1.89 of the Budget 2016, what progress has been made on Professor Sir Adrian Smith's review of mathematics teaching for 16 to 18 year olds; and when her Department plans to publish the terms of reference of that review.

Professor Sir Adrian Smith’s review of post-16 mathematics will be published in due course. Some of the initial findings of the review are set out in the Building our Industrial Strategy Green Paper, which can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/building-our-industrial-strategy.

The terms of reference were published in July 2016, they can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/south-asian-method-of-teaching-maths-to-be-rolled-out-in-schools.