The self-professed “evidence-led education secretary” used data to back his all-academy push that his own statisticians admitted this week “may be misleading”.
Labour has said that Nadhim Zahawi must now return to Parliament to “correct the record” over his claims that high-performing trusts “deliver the best outcomes”.
The Department for Education was forced to amend and provide additional evidence for a document that makes the “case for a fully trust-led system” after criticism from the Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR) this week.
