Question follow-through · 11309
Music: Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that music remains central to the mainstream curriculum; whether it has undertaken any formal assessment of the impact of music education on attainment in maths, En
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 18 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 22 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 26 Jun 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
18 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that music remains central to the mainstream curriculum; whether it has undertaken any formal assessment of the impact of music education on attainment in maths, En
22 Jun 2026
Target answer date
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26 Jun 2026
Answer published
The department is committed to revitalising arts education. Music will therefore remain a statutory subject in the national curriculum from key stages 1 to 3, and all state-funded schools, including academies, will have a duty to teach the revised music p...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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