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Media enquiries
Contact information for the Department for Education's press office.
DfE press office
Journalists should call our central newsdesk on 020 7783 8300. This media-only line operates from Monday to Friday, 8am to 7pm. Outside of these hours the number will divert to the duty press officer.
Members of the public should call our general enquiries line on 0370 000 2288.
DfE media contacts
Head of Communications
Gabriel Milland
Telephone: 020 7783 8300
Head of Press Office
Ray Tang
Telephone: 020 7783 8300
News desk
Chief Press Officer
Sam Eversden
Telephone: 020 7783 8300
Senior Press Officer
Gina Malatesta
Telephone: 020 7783 8300
Press Officers
Robert Cooper
Amy Taylor
Emma Heseltine
Michael Murphy-Pyle
Telephone: 020 7783 8300
Schools desk
Chief Press Officer
Max Blain
Telephone: 020 7340 8685
Senior Press Officers
Eva Perkins
Telephone: 020 7783 8119
Press Officers
Annabel Ellis
Telephone: 020 7783 8198
Alex Blackburn
Telephone: 020 7783 8396
Andrew Hamilton
Telephone: 020 7783 8614
Children and families desk
Chief Press Officer
Katherine Pateman
Telephone: 020 7783 8751
Senior Press Officer
Chelsea Austin
Telephone: 020 7340 8465
Anna Rutter
Telephone: 020 7340 8189
Press Officers
Matthew Reville
Telephone: 020 7340 8332
Equalities desk
Chief Press Officer
Katherine Pateman
Telephone: 020 7783 8751
Senior Press Officer
Orla Delargy
Telephone: 020 7340 7851
Press Officers
Claire Porter
Telephone: 020 7340 8220
Catherine Houlsby
Telephone: 020 7783 8244
Media planning
Senior Media Planners
Sima Parmar
Telephone: 020 7227 5181
Michael Greenland
Telephone: 020 7340 8391
Office Manager
Stephen Hadley
Telephone: 020 7783 8590
Related contacts
The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills handles calls regarding higher education.
Executive agencies
DfE’s press office handles media enquiries on behalf of our executive agencies:
Please contact the DfE central newsdesk if you have any questions about the work of these agencies.
Non-departmental public bodies
If you have a specific enquiry about a policy that is managed by a non-departmental public body, you should contact the relevant body’s press office: