{"value":{"id":1353063,"askingMemberId":1533,"askingMember":null,"house":"Commons","memberHasInterest":false,"dateTabled":"2021-09-06T00:00:00","dateForAnswer":"2021-09-09T00:00:00","uin":"43434","questionText":"To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment he has made of the potential effect of falling numbers of GCSE and A-level music entries on the delivery of a broad and balanced curriculum.","answeringBodyId":60,"answeringBodyName":"Department for Education","isWithdrawn":false,"isNamedDay":true,"groupedQuestions":[],"answerIsHolding":false,"answerIsCorrection":false,"answeringMemberId":111,"answeringMember":null,"correctingMemberId":null,"correctingMember":null,"dateAnswered":"2021-09-09T00:00:00","answerText":"<p>Music education is a statutory subject from ages 5 to 14 in the National Curriculum, and pupils have an entitlement to study at least one arts subject at Key Stage 4 in maintained schools.</p><p>The proportion of pupils in state-funded schools in England taking at least one arts GCSE since 2010 has fluctuated across years, but has remained broadly stable.</p><p>It is up to individual schools and colleges to decide which A level courses to offer, and as part of that they may wish to work together with other providers in the area to combine resources and maximise their offers.</p><p>In March 2021, the Department published the Model Music Curriculum, a detailed non-statutory music curriculum for Key Stages 1, 2 and 3, developed by an independent panel of experts and musicians, with the aim to refresh music lessons with rich and diverse content.</p><p>The teaching of a broad and ambitious music curriculum will form a key part of the refreshed National Plan for Music Education.</p>","originalAnswerText":"","comparableAnswerText":"","dateAnswerCorrected":null,"dateHoldingAnswer":null,"attachmentCount":0,"heading":"Music: Curriculum","attachments":[],"groupedQuestionsDates":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Questions/1353063","method":"GET"}]}