Question follow-through · 27650
Religion: Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a national plan for religious education.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 30 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 4 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 4 Feb 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
30 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a national plan for religious education.
4 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
4 Feb 2025
Answer published
Religious education (RE) is an important subject that should provide pupils with an opportunity to learn about a wide range of religious and non-religious beliefs. RE should help pupils to better understand the values and traditions of different religious...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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