Question follow-through · 23399
Education: Democracy
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has had discussions with Cabinet colleagues on steps to increase democratic education.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 13 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 15 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 21 Jan 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
13 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has had discussions with Cabinet colleagues on steps to increase democratic education.
15 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
21 Jan 2025
Answer published
For secondary schools, democracy is currently taught through the national curriculum for citizenship at key stages 3 and 4, which covers parliamentary democracy, the key elements of the constitution of the United Kingdom, the power of government and how c...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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