Written Question·Department for Education·UIN HL1684

Music and Dance Scheme

Tabled: 6 July 2026

Answered: 17 July 2026

Question

To ask His Majesty's Government whether they consider the Music and Dance Scheme to have successfully enabled social mobility through arts education; and whether they intend to provide a full £4 million increase to the funding of the scheme recommended to

Answer

The Music and Dance Scheme (MDS) remains central to providing access to specialist performing arts education for high achieving young musicians and dancers, through means-tested bursaries to attend one of eight private schools or one of 20 Centres for Adv...

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