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Schools: Arts

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department plans to deliver a Music and Arts Pupil Premium to schools.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body: Department for Education
Tabled: 2 Apr 2025
Target answer date: 7 Apr 2025
Answer: 9 Apr 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

2 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department plans to deliver a Music and Arts Pupil Premium to schools.
7 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 Apr 2025
Answer published
Schools are expected to fund the delivery of music and arts teaching from their core budget. The government has committed to putting education back at the forefront of national life, with a further £3.2 billion going into schools’ budgets, with £1 billion...

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