The role of Minister of State for School Standards, formerly Minister of State for Schools is a mid-level position in the Department for Education in the British government.
The current minister is Georgia Gould History In the Major ministries, the role was known as Minister of State for Education and Science and Minister of State for Education.
In the Brown ministry (2007 to 2010), the position of Minister of State for Schools and Learning worked at the Department for Children, Schools and Families.
In the Cameron ministries, the role was known as Minister of State for Schools.
Under Liz Truss's tenure, the role was demoted to a parliamentary under-secretary position known as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for School Standards.
Responsibilities The minister is responsible for the following:
recruitment and retention of teachers and school leaders (including initial teacher training, qualifications and professional development) supporting a high-quality teaching profession and reducing teacher workload Teaching Regulation Agency admissions and school transport school revenue funding, including the national funding formula for schools curriculum and qualifications (including links with Ofqual) Standards and Testing Agency and primary assessment school accountability and inspection (including links with Ofsted) support for raising school standards school sport pupil premium relationships, sex, and health education; and personal, social, health and economic education behaviour and attendance and exclusions early education curriculum and teaching quality coronavirus (COVID-19) response for schools
List of ministers
NamePortraitTook officeLeft officePolitical partyPrime MinisterMinister of State for EducationEdward Boyle1 April 196416 October 1964ConservativeDouglas-HomePeter Legh, 4th Baron Newton1 April 196416 October 1964Minister of State, Education and ScienceBertram Bowden, Baron Bowden19 October 1964 11 October 1965LabourWilson IReg Prentice20 October 19646 April 1966Edward Redhead11 October 1965 7 January 1967Goronwy Roberts6 April 196629 August 1967Wilson IIShirley Williams7 January 196713 October 1969Alice Bacon29 August 1967 19 June 1970Gerald Fowler13 October 196919 June 1970Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Education and ScienceJohn Ganzoni, 2nd Baron Belstead24 June 19705 June 1973ConservativeHeathMinister of State, Education and ScienceNorman St John-Stevas5 June 19734 March 1974ConservativeHeathGerald Fowler8 March 197418 October 1974LabourWilson IIINorman Crowther Hunt, Baron Crowther-Hunt18 October 197423 January 1976Wilson IVGerald Fowler23 January 197610 September 1976CallaghanGordon Oakes10 September 19764 May 1979Janet Young, Baroness Young7 May 197914 September 1981ConservativeThatcher IPaul Channon5 January 1981 13 June 1983Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Education and SciencePeter Brooke13 June 198319 November 1985ConservativeThatcher II)Minister of State, Education and ScienceChris Patten5 September 198510 September 1986ConservativeThatcher IIAngela Rumbold MP for Mitcham and Morden10 September 198624 July 1990Thatcher IIITim Eggar MP for Enfield North24 July 199014 April 1992Major IEmily Blatch, Baroness Blatch14 April 199220 July 1994Major IIEric Forth MP for Mid Worcestershire20 July 19942 May 1997Stephen Byers MP for North Tyneside2 May 199727 July 1998LabourBlair IEstelle Morris MP for Birmingham Yardley28 July 19988 June 2001Stephen Timms MP for East Ham11 June 200124 October 2002Blair IIIDavid Miliband MP for South Shields24 October 200216 December 2004Stephen Twigg MP for Enfield Southgate16 December 20045 May 2005Labour Co-opJacqui Smith MP for Redditch6 May 20055 May 2006LabourBlair IIIJim Knight MP for South Dorset5 May 20065 June 2009Labour Co-opBlair III BrownVernon Coaker MP for Gedling8 June 200911 May 2010LabourBrownMinister of State for SchoolsNick Gibb MP for Bognor Regis and Littlehampton13 May 20104 September 2012ConservativeCameron–CleggDavid Laws MP for Yeovil4 September 20128 May 2015Liberal DemocratMinister of State for School StandardsNick Gibb MP for Bognor Regis and Littlehampton12 May 201515 September 2021ConservativeCameron IIMay I & IIJohnson I & IIRobin Walker MP for Worcester16 September 20216 July 2022Johnson IIWill Quince MP for Colchester7 July 20227 September 2022Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for School StandardsJonathan Gullis MP for Stoke-on-Trent North8 September 202228 October 2022ConservativeTrussMinister of State for SchoolsNick Gibb MP for Bognor Regis and Littlehampton26 October 202213 November 2023ConservativeSunakDamian Hinds MP for East Hampshire13 November 20235 July 2024Minister of State for School StandardsCatherine McKinnell MP for Newcastle upon Tyne North8 July 20246 September 2025Labour StarmerGeorgia Gould MP for Queen's Park and Maida Vale6 September 2025IncumbentLabour Burnham
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