Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether the updated National Plan for Music Education will be implemented ahead of the 2022-23 academic year.

The government is committed to ensuring that all children and young people have access to a high-quality music education.

The government has been working with a panel of experts from across the music education sector to develop a refreshed national plan for music education. This will shape the future of music education in this country and follows the publication of the non-statutory Model Music Curriculum for Key Stages 1, 2, and 3 published last year.

The government will publish the refreshed national plan for music education by the end of this academic year. The department will continue to work with schools and the music education sector to ensure that the timetable for implementation is reasonable.