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	registered interest
	date	15/05/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Arts: Secondary Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to promote arts and creative subject provision in secondary schools.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
	tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
	uin	254735
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2019 answer text <p>All state-maintained secondary schools must teach art and design and music to pupils at Key Stage 3 (pupils aged 11 – 14). Drama is taught as part of the English curriculum and dance is included in PE &amp; sport. At Key Stage 4 (pupils aged 14 – 16), there is a statutory entitlement for every pupil to take an arts subject, if they wish to do so. Academies must teach a broad and balanced curriculum.</p><p> </p><p>Ofsted’s new education inspection framework, which comes into effect in September, has a strong emphasis on ensuring schools provide a broad and balanced curriculum for all their pupils.</p><p> </p><p>Between 2016-20 we are spending almost £500 million on a range of arts and cultural education programmes.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 21/05/2019 16:42:39 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff

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	registered interest
	date	28/10/2016
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Arts: Secondary Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to increase uptake of creative subjects in secondary schools.
	tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
	tabling member printed	Royston Smith
	uin	50935
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/11/2016 answer text <p>All schools, including academies and free schools, must provide a broad and balanced curriculum that promotes the spiritual, moral, cultural, mental and physical development of pupils at the school and of society.</p><p> </p><p>The national curriculum, which includes music, art and design, English, drama, dance, design &amp; technology and computer science, is compulsory for maintained schools. Academies and free schools are not required to teach the national curriculum, but are required by their funding agreement to provide a broad and balanced curriculum. They can use their freedoms to innovate and build more stretching and tailored curricula, to meet the particular needs of their pupils or their local area or the particular ethos of the school.</p><p> </p><p>Between 2012-2016 the Government invested over £460 million in a diverse portfolio of music and arts education programmes that are designed to improve access to the arts for all children, regardless of their background, and to develop talent across the country.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 07/11/2016 17:54:06 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4478 label Biography information for Royston Smith

528956

	registered interest
	date	27/06/2016
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Arts: Secondary Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to encourage the take-up of creative subjects in secondary schools.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Northfield
	tabling member printed	Richard Burden
	uin	41332
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/07/2016 answer text <p>The Government believes that every child should experience a high quality education throughout their time at school including in creative subjects such as music, art and design. All state-funded schools must provide a broad and balanced curriculum that promotes the spiritual, moral, cultural, mental and physical development of pupils at the school and of society.</p><p>In maintained schools music and art and design are compulsory subjects within the national curriculum for 5-14 year olds. Maintained schools are also required to teach their pupils dance, as part of the PE curriculum for 5-14 year olds and drama, as part of the English curriculum for 5-16 year olds.</p><p>We have reformed GCSEs to make them more rigorous and to match expectations in the highest performing jurisdictions around the world. Since the English Baccalaureate (Ebacc) was first introduced the proportion of pupils in state-funded schools taking at least one GCSE in an arts subject has increased, rising from 46 per cent in 2011 to 50 per cent in 2015. From September 2016, schools will be teaching new gold standard GCSEs in music, dance, drama and art and design and new AS and A levels in music, dance and drama and theatre.</p><p>Between 2012-16, the Department invested over £460 million in a diverse portfolio of arts and music education programmes that are designed to improve access to the arts for all children, regardless of their background, and to develop talent across the country.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 05/07/2016 16:06:53 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	301 label Biography information for Richard Burden

458455

	registered interest
	date	08/03/2016
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Arts: Secondary Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to (a) promote the study of creative subjects in secondary schools and (b) address the skills shortage in the UK creative industry sector.
	tabling member constituency	Brentford and Isleworth
	tabling member printed	Ruth Cadbury
	uin	30152
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2016 answer text <p>All schools are required to provide a broad and balanced curriculum. The Government recognises that creative arts are an integral part of a child’s education. They develop skills that are important to our economy and help prepare children for adult life.</p><p> </p><p>The national curriculum sets out our expectations of what pupils should be taught and we have reformed GCSE and A level qualifications in a range of subjects, including art and design, music, drama, dance and design &amp; technology. We have made significant changes in particular to design and technology, making this a better preparation for young people to progress into careers in a wide range of engineering and design fields.</p><p> </p><p>Our reforms to technical and vocational education incentivise schools and colleges to teach only those qualifications that meet rigorous quality criteria, develop the skills and knowledge that employers need and enable young people to progress into employment. For 16-18 year olds this includes qualifications in creative subjects that will equip them to apply for a range of jobs in the creative industries.</p><p> </p><p>In November, the Government announced further reforms to technical and professional education that will simplify the skills system and ensure it is understood and valued by employers. The Government will simplify and streamline the number of qualifications so that individuals have a clear set of routes which allow for progression into skilled employment. An independent panel, chaired by Lord Sainsbury, is developing proposals for these reforms and they will report to Government this spring‎.</p><p> </p><p>In December 2014, the Secretary of State announced funding for a new careers and enterprise company. This employer-led, independent company is strengthening links between employers, schools and colleges and careers and enterprise organisations to inspire young people, assisting them with taking control of their own futures and helping to address skills shortages. The provision of high-quality careers guidance for all young people is a key part of this Government’s commitment to delivering real social justice.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 14/03/2016 16:11:10 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4389 label Biography information for Ruth Cadbury

167628

	registered interest
	date	03/12/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Arts: Secondary Education
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the remarks by Lord Nash on 27 November (HL Deb, col 1094), (1) what is the source of the figures about key stage 4 examination entries; (2) what is the numerical breakdown of entries for each subject; and (3) for (a) music, (b) art and design, and (c) drama, which examinations are included in the category "all key stage 4 exams".
	tabling member printed	The Earl of Clancarty
	uin	HL3402
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2014 answer text <p>The source of the key stage 4 (KS4) examination entries is the 2012/13 KS4 performance tables data. The numerical breakdown for each subject is as follows:</p><table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>% change 2010-2013</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Art and Design</p></td><td><p>194,276</p></td><td><p>192,542</p></td><td><p>196,202</p></td><td><p>202,091</p></td><td><p>4%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Drama</p></td><td><p>113,479</p></td><td><p>113,130</p></td><td><p>112,790</p></td><td><p>116,414</p></td><td><p>3%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Music</p></td><td><p>53,471</p></td><td><p>54,866</p></td><td><p>56,204</p></td><td><p>57,205</p></td><td><p>7%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Entry level, GCSE, vocational GCSE, iGCSE, national vocational qualifications (NVQ), vocationally related qualifications (VRQ), Business and Technical Education (BTEC) and OCR national qualifications are included in the “all key stage 4 examinations” category.</p><p>The 2014 figures relating specifically to GCSEs, quoted at the end of my answer, were based on data which was published by Ofqual[1] in May 2014.</p><p>[1] <a href="http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20141031163546/http:/ofqual.gov.uk/standards/statistics/provisional-gcse-igcse-entries/" target="_blank">http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20141031163546/http://ofqual.gov.uk/standards/statistics/provisional-gcse-igcse-entries/</a></p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 16/12/2014 17:05:57 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
	tabling member	3391 label Biography information for The Earl of Clancarty