Ministerial role

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

Organisations: Department for Education

Responsibilities

The minister’s responsibilities include:

  • regulatory review and overall approach to academisation
  • intervention in underperforming schools and school improvement
  • academies and multi-academy trusts
  • school governance
  • Education Investment Areas
  • free schools
  • faith schools
  • independent schools
  • school capital investment (including pupil place planning)
  • school efficiency and commercial policy
  • departmental data strategy
  • student finance (including the Student Loans Company)
  • safeguarding in schools and post-16 settings
  • counter extremism in schools and post-16 settings
  • home education and supplementary schools
  • departmental efficiency and commercial policy

Previous holders of this role

  1. Baroness Barran MBE

    2022 to 2024