Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to increase understanding of (a) politics and (b) Parliament within the national secondary school curriculum.

Pupils learn about politics and Parliament within citizenship at secondary school, as well as within history where relevant.

The independent Curriculum and Assessment Review recommended that the curriculum should support democratic understanding and engagement. In response to the review, the department has committed to make citizenship compulsory in primary schools and to publish revised programmes of study to ensure that all pupils receive an essential grounding in a range of topics including democracy, government and law. We will consult on programmes of study next year, and the new national curriculum will be published in 2027 for first teaching in 2028.