Ministerial role

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for the School System)

Organisations: Department for Education

Responsibilities

The minister’s responsibilities include:

  • free schools, university technical colleges and studio schools
  • academies and multi-academy trusts
  • faith schools
  • independent schools
  • home education and supplementary schools
  • intervention in underperforming schools
  • school improvement (including teaching school alliances, national and local leaders of education and school improvement funds)
  • school governance
  • school capital investment (including new school places, school condition, land and playing fields)
  • counter extremism and integration in schools, further education colleges and sixth-form colleges
  • safeguarding in schools and post-16 settings
  • further education provider market including quality and improvement
  • school food
  • opportunity areas programme
  • delivery of and the careers strategy
  • EU exit preparation

Previous holders of this role

  1. Lord Agnew

    2017 to 2020

  2. Lord Nash

    2016 to 2017