Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the UK Digital Strategy published on 1 March 2017, by what date the Government expects to deliver coding in the National Curriculum from Key Stage 1 onwards.

The reforms to the National Curriculum introduced computing as a new subject in 2014, replacing the outdated information and communications technology (ICT). These new computing programmes of study include coding from Key Stage One onwards. The new National Curriculum is statutory in maintained schools at all Key Stages and academies and free schools may use it as a benchmark.

The new computing curriculum aims to equip young people with the knowledge and skills they need to become active creators of digital technology. It focuses on the hard elements of computer science and teaching about how computers work, the basics of programming and designing computer programs to address real world problems. The curriculum was developed in association with subject experts from industry.