Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many state schools offered History of Art A-level in academic year 2015-16; how many such schools were comprehensive schools; and if she will place a list of those schools in the Library.

Provisional 2016 national figures show that there were 12 state-funded schools where at least one student had been entered for A level history of art, nine of which were comprehensive schools. The list of these schools will be placed in the House library.

As I announced in a Written Ministerial Statement on 1 December, the exam board Pearson has confirmed that it intends to develop a new A level in history of art for teaching from September 2017.