Written Question·Department for Education·UIN 89885

Literature: Curriculum

Tabled: 11 November 2025
Answered: 21 November 2025
Named Day

Question

Vikki Slade

Liberal DemocratMid Dorset and North Poole

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will publish guidance for schools on (a) responding to parental requests for the withdrawal of books from recommended reading lists and (b) the circumstances under which schools can remove books from tho

Answer

Georgia Gould
The current National Curriculum requires teachers to encourage pupils to develop the habit of reading widely and often, for both pleasure and information. Following the publication of the Curriculum and Assessment Review on 5 November 2025, the department...

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