Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Lee Anderson and Georgia Gould

Monday 1st December 2025 Commons Chamber

[Georgia Gould]

I can absolutely reassure Mr Jones that drama is included within English in the current national curriculum and is compulsory up to the age of 16. The Government plan to strengthen curriculum content for drama and English and ensure that GCSEs and arts subjects are fit for purpose. I know how much brilliant work drama teachers do, and how that supports children with self-expression and confidence, hopefully setting them up for many careers, including the one we are all here doing today.

[Lee Anderson (Ashfield) (Reform)]

Year 9 students at Quarrydale academy in Ashfield are currently studying politics, and on their display board they had the words “extreme right-wing parties”, “Nazi party” and “fascism”. At the side of those words, they had pictures of Mussolini, Adolf Hitler, my hon. Friend the Member for Clacton (Nigel Farage) and me. Does the Minister think that should be on the curriculum?

[Georgia Gould]

We have strict rules about political impartiality within our education system and we are clear about those rules. All schools should apply them.