Question follow-through · 68042
Politics and Government: Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to increase political education in the curriculum in the context of lowering the voting age to 16.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 15 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 21 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 21 Jul 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
15 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to increase political education in the curriculum in the context of lowering the voting age to 16.
21 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
21 Jul 2025
Answer published
Democracy 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 government and how citizens and Parliament ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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