Question follow-through · 40044
Politics: Curriculum
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of including political education in the national curriculum.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 20 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 24 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 28 Mar 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
20 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of including political education in the national curriculum.
24 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 Mar 2025
Answer published
For secondary schools, democracy and politics 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 governm...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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