Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans for changes to the national curriculum; and if she will make a statement.

The National Curriculum was comprehensively reviewed and then published in 2013. We currently have no plans to review it. Schools started teaching the majority of the new National Curriculum in September 2014, with some subjects taught from September 2015 and the final subject, science at Key Stage 4, taught from September 2016. Schools are therefore currently embedding the new National Curriculum into their teaching. The National Curriculum outlines the body of essential knowledge that must be taught in maintained schools. This essential knowledge should not change significantly over time.