Question follow-through · 34515
Natural History: GCSE
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department plans to continue the implementation of a new GCSE in Natural History.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 27 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 3 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 7 Mar 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
27 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department plans to continue the implementation of a new GCSE in Natural History.
3 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
7 Mar 2025
Answer published
I refer my hon. Friend, the Member for Shipley to the answer of 17 December 2024 to Question 18517.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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