Question follow-through · 3413
Natural History: GCSE
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department plans to introduce a Natural History GCSE in September 2025.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 30 Aug 2024
- Target answer date
- 3 Sept 2024
- Answer
- 9 Sept 2024 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
30 Aug 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department plans to introduce a Natural History GCSE in September 2025.
3 Sept 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 Sept 2024
Answer published
The government has launched an independent Curriculum and Assessment Review covering key stages 1 to 5, chaired by Professor Becky Francis CBE. The Review will consider the current qualification pathways available at key stage 4 and 5. A call for evidence...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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