Question follow-through · 105518
Further Education and Schools: Basic Skills
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans she has to increases levels of emphasis on the development of essential life skills in schools and colleges.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 13 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 15 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 10 Feb 2026 · 28 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
13 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans she has to increases levels of emphasis on the development of essential life skills in schools and colleges.
15 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 Feb 2026
Answer published
A reformed national curriculum will provide pupils with a broad range of knowledge and skills that prepares them for adult life. The department will prepare young people for life and careers in a changing world, embedding vital applied knowledge skills in...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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