Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how the Curriculum and Assessment Review panel chaired by Professor Becky Francis will be constituted.

The Curriculum and Assessment Review will be independently led by a group of education experts (the Review Group). My right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Education, has appointed Professor Becky Francis CBE as the Chair of the Review who will convene the Review Group in consultation with the Secretary of State. An announcement about the membership of the group will be made in due course.

The Review Group will work in line with the Working Principles, as laid out in the ‘Review Aims, Terms of Reference and Working Principles’, which can be found here: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6699698f49b9c0597fdb0010/Curriculum_and_assessment_review_-_aims_terms_of_reference_and_working_principles.pdf.