Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to improve the number of extracurricular activities offered to pupils in state primary schools.

The department has published a new Enrichment Framework with benchmarks to provide a clear, simple structure against which schools and colleges can evaluate their own provision and make considered improvements to their offer.

It is supported by five Enrichment Ambassadors and the £22.5 million Enrichment Expansion Programme, which will work with over 400 schools in the most deprived areas of England to help them meet the framework's benchmarks.

​This sits alongside wider government programmes, including PE and School Sport Partnerships, the National Centre for Arts Education, National Education Nature Parks, the Cadet Expansion Programme, Erasmus+ and Building Equal Access to Chess in Schools and free enrichment offers through the Free Breakfast Club programme from the LEGO® Group and Youth Sport Trust, in partnership with Sports Directory. In addition, the Every Child Can programme will invest £132.5 million of dormant assets funding in new enrichment activities through schools, community programmes, weekend activities and holiday provision.