Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the recommendation on page 45 of the Foreign Affairs Committee's report, Tilting horizons: the Integrated Review and the Indo-Pacific (HC 172, Session 2022–23), what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of introducing an A-level in Chinese Ancient Civilisation.

The department has no current plans to introduce an A level in Chinese Ancient Civilisation. There is scope for Chinese civilisation to be covered in the A level subject content for history, depending on the awarding body specification taught.