Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, on which dates the National Plan for Music Education monitoring board met since 2011; and if he will publish the minutes of those meetings.

The National Plan for Music Education, published in 2011, sets out the Government’s commitment to music and our desire that young musicians should have every opportunity to progress as far as their talents allow.

According to the Department’s records, the National Plan monitoring board met on the following dates: Monday 23 January 2012; Monday 14 May 2012; Wednesday 17 October 2012, and Wednesday 28 February 2013.

Since then, officials from the Department have continued to meet regularly with the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, and Arts Council England, to monitor delivery of the Plan and its related programmes.

​The Department has no plans to publish minutes of monitoring board meetings.