Question follow-through · 43768

Schools: Music

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether music education will be one of the metrics assessed in the Ofsted report card announced for schools in England.

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 music education will be one of the metrics assessed in the Ofsted report card announced for schools in England.
7 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 Apr 2025
Answer published
Ofsted is currently consulting on a revised education inspection framework and inspection report card. This is therefore a matter for His Majesty’s Chief Inspector, Sir Martyn Oliver. I have asked him to write to the hon. Member for Stratford-on-Avon dire...

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