Ministerial role

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for School Standards)

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
  • Education Investment Areas (jointly with Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for the School and College System))
  • school revenue funding, including the national funding formula for schools
  • school efficiency and commercial policy
  • pupil premium
  • behaviour, attendance and exclusions
  • school sport
  • digital strategy and technology in education (EdTech)

Previous holders of this role

  1. Jonathan Gullis

    2022 to 2022