Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what progress the Government has made in strengthening the (a) rights of parents of summer born-children to defer the year of their child's entry to school and (b) right for a child to remain in the same academic year irrespective of changes in school or local authority; and when the Government plans to consult on proposed changes to the Admissions Code.

It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.