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Citizenship: Curriculum

Asked by Vicky FoxcroftLabourDepartment for EducationTabled Answered 27 November 2025UIN 91410

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure that Citizenship is treated on an equal footing with other statutory National Curriculum subjects within Ofsted’s inspection framework.

Answered by Georgia Gould

These are matters for His Majesty’s Chief Inspector, Sir Martyn Oliver. I have asked him to write to my hon. Friend, the Member for Lewisham North and a copy of his reply will be placed in the Libraries of both Houses.

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