Question follow-through · 51657
Environment: Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure that schools teach about the environment.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 12 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 14 May 2025
- Answer
- 20 May 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Recorded timeline
12 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure that schools teach about the environment.
14 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 May 2025
Answer published
The national curriculum in England provides a broad framework within which schools have the flexibility to develop the content of their own curricula. Topics related to the environment can be taught within all key stages of the science and geography curri...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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