Ministerial role
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for the School System and Student Finance)
Organisations:
Department for Education
Current role holder:
Baroness Barran MBE
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
Current role holder
Baroness Barran MBE
Baroness Barran MBE was re-appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Education on 27 October 2022.
She is Government equalities spokesperson in the Upper House.
Prior to this she was:
- Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for the School and College System) at the Department for Education from 21 September 2022 to 26 October 2022
- Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for the School System) at the Department for Education from 17 September 2021 to 20 September 2022
- Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Civil Society) at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport from 26 July 2019 to 17 September 2021