Question to the Department for Education:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they have any future plans to make all secondary schools academies.

The government’s ambition is for every school to have the opportunity to become an academy. Over 60 per cent of secondary schools have already become academies and we want to encourage more schools to do this. The Education and Adoption Bill, currently going through Parliament, will enable us to intervene more quickly to turn underperforming schools into academies.