Written Question·Department for Education·UIN 40792

Holocaust: Education

Tabled: 24 March 2025
Answered: 1 April 2025

Question

Damien Egan

LabourBristol North East

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of the level of knowledge and understanding of the Holocaust among school-age students in England.

Answer

Catherine McKinnell
The Holocaust is the only historic event which is compulsory within the current national curriculum for history at key stage 3. The government has made a commitment that the Holocaust will remain a compulsory topic in the reformed national curriculum, whi...

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