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Department: Department for Education

Oral Answers to Questions

Julian Knight Excerpts
Monday 11th September 2017

(6 years, 10 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Julian Knight Portrait Julian Knight (Solihull) (Con)
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Personal finance education in schools is a key way of skilling up young people, so will the Minister meet me soon to discuss further plans to make available to schools a textbook on personal finance education through the all-party group on financial education for young people?

Nick Gibb Portrait Nick Gibb
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Financial education is important. It is in the national curriculum and in the maths curriculum, which is an essential way of children becoming financially literate. I would be delighted to meet my hon. Friend and I am particularly keen to discuss textbooks.