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Children: Reading

Commons · Question 19139 · Tabled 10 Dec 2024 · Department for Education · Official record

Answered 16 Dec 2024

Question

Asked by Andrew Cooper

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential implications for its policies of the National Literacy Trust's report entitled Children and Young People's Reading in 2024, published in November 2

Answer

Answered by Catherine McKinnell, 16 Dec 2024

​​High and rising school standards, with excellent foundations in reading, writing and mathematics, are at the heart of the government’s mission to break down barriers to opportunity and give every child the best start in life.​We know that reading for pl...