Question to the Department for Education:

To ask His Majesty's Government whether the Department for Education is responsible for undertaking identity checks for governors of independent schools.

The department does not hold this data, as it does not carry out identity checks on individuals involved in the governance or management of independent schools. In accordance with the Education (Independent School Standards) Regulations 2014, responsibility for ensuring that appropriate identity and suitability checks are carried out rests with the school’s individual proprietor or proprietor body, as applicable.