Written Question·Department for Education·UIN 88630

Performing Arts: Disadvantaged

Tabled: 10 November 2025
Answered: 14 November 2025

Question

Dame Caroline Dinenage

ConservativeGosport

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure that children from non-privileged backgrounds have access to music and dance schools.

Answer

Georgia Gould
Funding of approximately £36.5 million is committed for the 2025/26 academic year for the Music and Dance Scheme, which provides income assessed bursaries to enable exceptionally talented children, regardless of their personal and financial circumstances,...

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