Harriet Harman – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Education

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Harriet Harman on 2014-05-01.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of pupils aged (a) seven, (b) 11, (c) 16 and (d) 18 or 19 years have received the minimum level of cultural education proposed in Appendix A of Cultural Education: a summary of programmes and opportunities, published in July 2013; and if he will make a statement.

Elizabeth Truss

The Department for Education does not collect data on the number or proportion of schools in England providing the minimum level of cultural education proposed in Appendix A of Cultural Education: a summary of programmes and opportunities. Nor does the Department collect data on what proportion of pupils, of any age, have received the minimum level of cultural education it proposes.

The levels of cultural education the Appendix proposes are not mandatory, but are included as a point of reference for schools.