Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many items of guidance have been issued by his Department to headteachers of primary schools, excluding guidance that relates only to particular individual schools, individual local authorities, or individual multi-academy trusts, in each of the last 36 months.

A database of publications by category can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/search/all?level_one_taxon=c58fdadd-7743-46d6-9629-90bb3ccc4ef0&order=most-viewed.

This database can be interrogated to identify specific guidance aimed at specific audiences, including education and training providers.

The database contains guidance that may have been updated on multiple occasions, for instance the guidance document ‘Actions for Schools during the coronavirus outbreak’ has been updated 42 times since it was first published in July 2020: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/actions-for-schools-during-the-coronavirus-outbreak.