Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of trends in the level of uptake of Citizenship GCSE in secondary schools over the last five years.
Uptake of the GCSE in Citizenship Studies has been fairly consistent over the last five years. The table below shows entry figures for England since 2021:
GCSE (Full Course) Summer Citizenship Studies entries (England only)
Subject | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
Citizenship Studies | 20,211 | 21,393 | 21,765 | 20,743 | 20,949 |