Select committee: House of Commons
Education Committee
Scrutinises Department for Education
182 reports
1049 conclusions & recs
42 reports with response document linked
140 without response document linked
Committee work 74 matching items · Evidence or correspondence only
Filter counts show committee work items (inquiries and other recorded sessions), not individual reports or findings.
| Inquiry | Type | Status | Opened | Reports | Items | Response |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The use of Artificial Intelligence and EdTech in Education Inquiry | Evidence/session | Open | 22 Jun 2026 | 0 | 0 | None |
| ‘Every Child Achieving and Thriving’ White Paper Inquiry | Evidence/session | Open | 18 Jun 2026 | 0 | 0 | None |
| The Work of the Department for Education Non-inquiry session | Evidence/session | Open | 9 Jun 2026 | 0 | 0 | None |
| The work of the Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills (Ofsted) Non-inquiry session | Evidence/session | Open | 9 Jun 2026 | 0 | 0 | None |
| Early Years: Improving Support for Children and Families Inquiry | Evidence/session | Open | 19 May 2026 | 0 | 0 | None |
| SEND White Paper Non-inquiry session | Evidence/session | Open | 24 Mar 2026 | 0 | 0 | None |
| The work of the Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation (Ofqual) Non-inquiry session | Evidence/session | Open | 6 Jan 2026 | 0 | 0 | None |
| Teacher Recruitment, Training and Retention Non-inquiry session | Evidence/session | Open | 25 Nov 2025 | 0 | 0 | None |
| School Attendance Non-inquiry session | Evidence/session | Open | 8 Jul 2025 | 0 | 0 | None |
| Curriculum and Assessment Review Non-inquiry session | Evidence/session | Open | 23 Apr 2025 | 0 | 0 | None |
| Pre-appointment Hearing: The Chair of The Office for Students (OfS) Pre-appointment hearing | Evidence/session | Open | 10 Feb 2025 | 0 | 0 | None |
| Reform of level 3 qualifications Non-inquiry session | Evidence/session | Open | 18 Nov 2024 | 0 | 0 | None |
| The work of the Children’s Commissioner for England Non-inquiry session | Evidence/session | Open | 11 Nov 2024 | 0 | 0 | None |
| Music hubs Non-inquiry session | Evidence/session | Closed | 24 Apr 2024 | 0 | 0 | None |
| Disabled students’ allowance Non-inquiry session | Evidence/session | Closed | 12 Apr 2024 | 0 | 0 | None |
| Impact of industrial action on university students Inquiry | Evidence/session | Closed | 24 Nov 2023 | 0 | 0 | None |
| Unsafe concrete in education settings Non-inquiry session | Evidence/session | Closed | 6 Sep 2023 | 0 | 0 | None |
| Government plans for Maths to 18 and Schools Funding Non-inquiry session | Evidence/session | Closed | 12 Jul 2023 | 0 | 0 | None |
| Accountability hearing with Ofsted on children’s social care and safeguarding Non-inquiry session | Evidence/session | Closed | 8 Jun 2023 | 0 | 0 | None |
| Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) Non-inquiry session | Evidence/session | Closed | 17 Mar 2023 | 0 | 0 | None |
| Child exploitation and county lines Non-inquiry session | Evidence/session | Closed | 1 Feb 2023 | 0 | 0 | None |
| Government proposals for compulsory maths to age 18 Non-inquiry session | Evidence/session | Closed | 12 Jan 2023 | 0 | 0 | None |
| Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse Non-inquiry session | Evidence/session | Closed | 30 Nov 2022 | 0 | 0 | None |
| Exam results 2022 Non-inquiry session | Evidence/session | Closed | 20 Sep 2022 | 0 | 0 | None |
| Free speech and research content in English universities Non-inquiry session | Evidence/session | Closed | 30 Aug 2022 | 0 | 0 | None |
| Children’s Services and the murders of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes and Star Hobson Non-inquiry session | Evidence/session | Closed | 14 Jun 2022 | 0 | 0 | None |
| The Government’s SEND Review Non-inquiry session | Evidence/session | Closed | 16 May 2022 | 0 | 0 | None |
| Universities and Higher Education Non-inquiry session | Evidence/session | Closed | 15 Mar 2022 | 0 | 0 | None |
| Mental health and wellbeing Non-inquiry session | Evidence/session | Closed | 1 Feb 2022 | 0 | 0 | None |
| Education challenges facing children and young people from Gypsy, Roma and Traveller backgrounds Inquiry | Evidence/session | Closed | 6 Dec 2021 | 0 | 0 | None |
| Universities and the pandemic Non-inquiry session | Evidence/session | Closed | 11 Oct 2021 | 0 | 0 | None |
| COVID-19 and the vaccination of children Non-inquiry session | Evidence/session | Closed | 15 Sep 2021 | 0 | 0 | None |
| Summer results 2021 and arrangements for 2022 Non-inquiry session | Evidence/session | Closed | 31 Aug 2021 | 0 | 0 | None |
| Education Recovery Non-inquiry session | Evidence/session | Closed | 23 Jun 2021 | 0 | 0 | None |
| Safeguarding in Schools Non-inquiry session | Evidence/session | Closed | 7 Jun 2021 | 0 | 0 | None |
| Regional Schools Commissioners Non-inquiry session | Evidence/session | Closed | 1 Apr 2021 | 0 | 0 | None |
| Funding and financial management of schools Non-inquiry session | Evidence/session | Closed | 18 Feb 2021 | 0 | 0 | None |
| Exams 2021 Non-inquiry session | Evidence/session | Closed | 3 Dec 2020 | 0 | 0 | None |
| Further Education White Paper Non-inquiry session | Evidence/session | Closed | 2 Sep 2020 | 0 | 0 | None |
| Accountability hearings Inquiry | Evidence/session | Closed | 17 Mar 2020 | 0 | 0 | None |
| Apprenticeship Levy Non-inquiry session | Evidence/session | Closed | 4 Mar 2020 | 0 | 0 | None |
| Adult skills and lifelong learning inquiry Inquiry | Evidence/session | Closed | 9 Jul 2019 | 0 | 0 | None |
| Knife crime inquiry Inquiry | Evidence/session | Closed | 19 Mar 2019 | 0 | 0 | None |
| Opportunity areas inquiry Inquiry | Evidence/session | Closed | 1 Mar 2019 | 0 | 0 | None |
| Fourth Industrial Revolution Inquiry | Evidence/session | Closed | 22 Apr 2018 | 0 | 0 | None |
| Education in the north inquiry Inquiry | Evidence/session | Closed | 1 Feb 2018 | 0 | 0 | None |
| Accountability hearings Inquiry | Evidence/session | Closed | 12 Sep 2017 | 0 | 0 | None |
| Integrity of public examinations inquiry Inquiry | Evidence/session | Closed | 12 Sep 2017 | 0 | 0 | None |
| School funding reform inquiry Inquiry | Evidence/session | Closed | 31 Jan 2017 | 0 | 0 | None |
| Fostering inquiry Inquiry | Evidence/session | Closed | 30 Sep 2016 | 0 | 0 | None |
Reports without a committee inquiry 53
Parliament published these reports with no official committee inquiry attached, so they do not appear in the inquiry list. Showing the 50 most recent.
- 3rd Report – Appointment of Professor Edward Peck CBE as Chair of the Office for Students 7 March 2025 · HC 731
- Government Response to the First Joint Report of the Education and Health and Social Care Committees: The Government’s Green Paper on mental health: failing a generation 25 July 2018
- 3rd Report - The Government’s Green Paper on mental health: failing a generation: 1st Joint Report of the Education and Health and Social Care Committees 9 May 2018 · HC 642
- 1st Joint Report of the Education and Health Committees of Session 2016-17 - Children and young people’s mental health—the role of education 2 May 2017 · HC 849
- 2nd Report of the Sub-Committee on Education, Skills and the Economy - Apprenticeships 31 March 2017 · HC 206
- 1st Report of the Sub-Committee on Education, Skills and the Economy - Careers education, information, advice and guidance 5 July 2016 · HC 205
- 2nd Report - Into independence, not out of care: 16 plus care options 17 July 2014 · HC 259
- 5th Report - Foundation Years: Sure Start children's centres - Volume III (Volume III - additional written evidence) 8 January 2014
- 5th Report - Foundation Years: Sure Start children's centres - Volume II (Volume II Oral and written evidence) 8 January 2014 · HC 364-II
- 5th Report - Foundation Years: Sure Start children's centres - Volume I (Volume I: Report, together with formal minutes) 17 December 2013 · HC 364-I
- 2nd Special Report - 2012 GCSE English Results: Responses from the Government and Ofqual to the Committee's First Report of Session 2013-14 14 October 2013
- 1st Report - 2012 GCSE English results (Report, together with formal minutes, oral and written evidence) 11 June 2013 · HC 204
- 7th Special Report: From GCSEs to EBCs: the Government’s proposals for reform: Government Response to the Committee's Eighth Report of Session 2012–13 30 April 2013 · HC 1116
- 6th Special Report: Careers guidance for young people: The impact of the new duty on schools: Government Response to the Committee's Seventh Report of Session 2012–13 22 April 2013 · HC 1078
- 5th Special Report - Support for Home Education: Government Response to the Committee's Fifth Report of Session 2012–13 18 March 2013 · HC 1013
- 4th Special Report: Children First: the child protection system in England: Responses from the Government and Ofsted to the Committee's Fourth Report of Session 2012–13 25 February 2013 · HC 993
- 8th Report - From GCSEs to EBCs: the Government’s proposals for reform - Volume II (Volume II Oral and Written Evidence) 6 February 2013 · HC 808 II
- 8th Report - From GCSEs to EBCs: the Government’s proposals for reform - Volume I 31 January 2013 · HC 808-I
- 3rd Special Report: Governance and leadership of the Department for Education: Government Response to the Third Report of the Committee, Session 2012–13 25 January 2013 · HC 919
- 6th Report - Pre-legislative scrutiny: Special Educational Needs - Volume III (Volume III Additional written evidence) 19 December 2012
- 6th Report - Pre-legislative scrutiny: Special Educational Needs - Volume II (Volume II Oral and written evidence) 19 December 2012 · HC 631-II
- 6th Report - Pre-legislative scrutiny: Special Educational Needs - Volume I (Volume I Report, and formal minutes) 19 December 2012 · HC 631-I
- 4th Report - Children first: the child protection system in England (Additional written evidence) 16 November 2012
- 4th Report - Children first: the child protection system in England - Volume II (Volume II: Oral and written evidence) 13 November 2012 · HC 137-II
- 4th Report - Children first: the child protection system in England 7 November 2012 · HC 137
- 3rd Report - Governance and leadership of the Department for Education 5 November 2012 · HC 700
- 2nd Special Report - The administration of examinations for 15-19 year olds in England: Responses from the Government and Ofqual to the First Report of the Committee, Session 2012-13 29 October 2012 · HC 679
- 1st Special Report - Great teachers: attracting, training and retaining the best: Government Response to the Committee's Ninth Report of Session 2010-12 16 July 2012 · HC 524
- 2nd Report - Appointment of Chair, Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission - Volume I (Report, together with formal minutes and written evidence) 12 July 2012 · HC 461-I
- 1st Report - The administration of examinations for 15-19 year olds in England - Volume III (Volume III: Additional written evidence) 3 July 2012
- 1st Report - The administration of examinations for 15-19 year olds in England - Volume II (Volume II: Oral and written evidence) 3 July 2012 · HC 141-II
- 1st Report - The administration of examinations for 15-19 year olds in England - Volume I (Volume I: Report, together with formal minutes) 3 July 2012 · HC 141-I
- 9th Report - Great teachers: attracting, training and retaining the best - Volume III (Additional written evidence) 3 May 2012 · HC 1515-III
- 9th Report - Great teachers: attracting, training and retaining the best - Volume II (Oral and written evidence) 1 May 2012 · HC 1515-ii
- 9th Report - Great teachers: attracting, training and retaining the best - Volume I 1 May 2012 · HC 1515-i
- 8th Report - Chief Regulator of Qualifications and Examinations - oral and written evidence (Wednesday 1 February 2012 Evidence given by Glenys Stacey, Chief Executive, Ofqual.) 28 March 2012 · HC 1764-ii
- 8th Report - Chief Regulator of Qualifications and Examinations - Volume I (Report, together with formal minutes) 3 February 2012 · HC 1764-I
- 7th Report - Appointment of HM Chief Inspector, Ofsted - Volume II - oral evidence (Evidence given by Sir Michael Wilshaw, Preferred candidate for HM Chief Inspector, Ofsted.) 1 December 2011 · HC 1607-II
- 7th Report - Appointment of HM Chief Inspector, Ofsted - Volume I (Report, together with formal minutes) 3 November 2011 · HC 1607-I
- 9th Special Report - The English Baccalaureate: Government Response to the Committee's Fifth Report 1 November 2011 · HC 1577
- 7th Special Report - The role and performance of Ofsted: Responses from the Government and Ofsted to the Second Report of the Committee, Session 2010-12 28 June 2011 · HC 1317
- 6th Special Report - Behaviour and Discipline in Schools: Government Response to the Committee's First Report of Session 2010-12 27 June 2011 · HC 1316
- 3rd Report - Services for Young People - volume II (Oral and written evidence) 23 June 2011 · HC 744-II
- 3rd Report - Services for Young People - volume I (Report, together with formal minutes) 23 June 2011 · HC 744-I
- 3rd Report - Services for Young People - additional written evidence 23 June 2011
- 5th Special Report - Looked-after Children: Further Government Response to the Third Report from the Children, Schools and Families Committee, Session 2008-09 4 April 2011 · HC 924
- 1st Report - Behaviour and Discipline in Schools - oral and written evidence 3 February 2011 · HC 516-II
- 1st Report - Behaviour and Discipline in Schools 3 February 2011 · HC 516-I
- 1st Report - Behaviour and Discipline in Schools - additional written evidence 3 February 2011
- 4th Special Report - Sure Start Children’s Centres: Government Response to the Fifth Report from the Children, Schools and Families Committee, Session 2009–10 28 January 2011 · HC 768
Other source-listed committee work
These are held source observations, not a claim that this committee's publication history is complete. Items without a verified local inquiry link are separate from the inquiry counts in the committee work list.
Business also listed for this committee 3
- Realising potential: Delivering the Child Poverty Strategy Primary page: Work and Pensions Committee
- Children and Young People's Mental Health Primary page: Health and Social Care Committee
- Child Poverty Taskforce Primary page: Work and Pensions Committee