Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will make Personal, Social, Health and Economic education part of the statutory curricula.

The Department has conducted a thorough and wide-ranging engagement process, including a call for evidence that closed on 12 February, on the scope and content of Relationships Education and Relationships and Sex Education, and on the future status of Personal, Social, Health and Economic education.

The Department is currently considering the responses to the call for evidence and representations through the engagement process.

The Department will announce its plans in due course.