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Question follow-through · 57447

Local History: Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to support the teaching of local history in schools.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
4 Jun 2025
Target answer date
9 Jun 2025
Answer
13 Jun 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 4 Jun 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to support the teaching of local history in schools.

  2. 9 Jun 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 13 Jun 2025

    Answer published

    The national curriculum provides a broad framework within which schools have the flexibility to develop the content of their own curricula. Local history is a compulsory element of the history curriculum across key stages 1 to 3, enabling schools to explo...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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