To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what representative bodies for home education took part in the recent discussions with her Department.

Meetings have been held by Departmental officials with: the policy committee of the Association of Directors of Children’s Services; officers of Darlington Borough Council; the children’s services scrutiny committee of the City of Westminster; and two regional forums of local authority elective home education officers, one for London and the South East and the other for the West Midlands.