Question follow-through · 81731
Skin Cancer: Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help consistent teaching of (a) safe and unsafe exposure to the sun and (b) how to reduce the risk of sun damage as outlined in the mandatory PHSE curriculum for primary schools.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 13 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 15 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 23 Oct 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
13 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help consistent teaching of (a) safe and unsafe exposure to the sun and (b) how to reduce the risk of sun damage as outlined in the mandatory PHSE curriculum for primary schools.
15 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 Oct 2025
Answer published
As part of the revised relationships, sex and health education (RSHE) statutory guidance, published on 15 July, schools must now teach facts about safe and unsafe exposure to the sun, and how to reduce the risk of sun damage, including skin cancer. In sec...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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