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Arts: Curriculum

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will take steps to ensure that a range of arts subjects are included in the national curriculum.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
11 Feb 2025
Target answer date
13 Feb 2025
Answer
19 Feb 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 11 Feb 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will take steps to ensure that a range of arts subjects are included in the national curriculum.

  2. 13 Feb 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 19 Feb 2025

    Answer published

    The current national curriculum includes art and design, music, dance within physical education and drama within English.The independent Curriculum and Assessment Review will seek to deliver a curriculum which is rich and broad, inclusive and innovative, ...

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