Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what data her Department holds on the (a) proportion of, (b) extent of and (c) reasons for schools deviating from the National Curriculum.

The department does not wish to create significant additional burdens on schools by trying to collect detailed information on compliance with the national curriculum, which is not always straightforward to assess, and therefore does not hold data on schools’ curriculum provision.

A recent external survey indicates that 8 in 10 Multi-Academy Trust Chief Executives believe that this change will have no impact or could have a positive impact for their schools.