Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Second sitting)

Ian Sollom Excerpts

Tuesday 21st January 2025 Public Bill Committees

[Ian Sollom (St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire) (LD)]

Q There is hopefully a very simple answer to this question. I am trying to pick through your previous answers on the curriculum. This question relates to the Bill. Should RE be included in the national curriculum?

Paul Barber: We are very content with the current position. If there were proposals to change that, we would need to work very carefully with everybody to try to get to a position that retains the necessary safeguards, as we see it, contained in the current position.

Nigel Genders: I would agree with that.

[The Chair]

Thank you very much to our witnesses. We will move on to our next panel. I do not know how long we will have, because we will have votes in the Chamber at some time, but we can at least make a start.

Examination of Witnesses

Sir Jon Coles, Sir Dan Moynihan and Luke Sparkes gave evidence.