questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that music remains central to the mainstream curriculum; whether it has undertaken any formal assessment of the impact of music education on attainment in maths, English and other subjects; and what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policy on music education of the publication of the Curriculum and Assessment Review Final Report in November 2025.
answerText: The department is committed to revitalising arts education. Music will therefore remain a statutory subject in the national curriculum from key stages 1 to 3, and all state-funded schools, including academies, will have a duty to teach the revised music p...
heading: Music: Education