Ministerial role

Minister of State (Minister of State for Schools)

Organisations: Department for Education

Responsibilities

The minister’s responsibilities include:

  • school accountability and inspection (including links with Ofsted)
  • Standards and Testing Agency and primary assessment
  • supporting a high-quality teaching profession including professional development
  • supporting recruitment and retention of teachers and school leaders including initial teacher training
  • Teaching Regulation Agency
  • National Tutoring Programme
  • school revenue funding, including the national funding formula for schools
  • pupil premium
  • school food, including free school meals
  • qualifications (including links with Ofqual)
  • curriculum including relationships, sex, and health education and personal, social, health and economic education
  • behaviour, attendance and exclusions
  • school sport
  • digital strategy and technology in education (EdTech)
  • admissions and school transport

Previous holders of this role

  1. The Rt Hon Damian Hinds MP

    2023 to 2024

  2. The Rt Hon Nick Gibb

    2022 to 2023

  3. The Rt Hon Nick Gibb

    2015 to 2016

  4. The Rt Hon David Laws

    2012 to 2015

  5. The Rt Hon Nick Gibb

    2010 to 2012