Question follow-through · 22151
First Aid: Curriculum
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether there are plans to make first aid training a mandatory component of the national curriculum.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 28 Aug 2026
- Target answer date
- 2 Sept 2026
- Answer
- 7 Sept 2026 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
28 Aug 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether there are plans to make first aid training a mandatory component of the national curriculum.
2 Sept 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
7 Sept 2026
Answer published
All state funded schools are required to teach first aid as part of the health education set out in the relationships, sex and health education (RSHE) statutory guidance. Independent schools are required to cover health education as part of their responsi...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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