PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Academies (17 December 2014)

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether and how the timetable for the creation of academies and sponsored academies will be affected by rules for purdah preceding the 2015 General Election.

Asked by:
Sir Christopher Chope (Conservative)

Guidance on the operation of Government during the pre-election purdah period will be issued in due course and will reflect practice under previous administrations. Until then, and in line with the practice of previous administrations, the normal business of Government will continue.

Answered by:
Edward Timpson (Conservative)
12 January 2015