Written Question·Department for Education·UIN 71516

Relationships and Sex Education

Tabled: 29 August 2025
Answered: 3 September 2025
Named Day

Question

Alistair Strathern

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To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of prioritising issues of sexual consent in sexual health education.

Answer

Catherine McKinnell
The revised relationships, sex and health education statutory guidance was published on 15 July and sets out that secondary schools should cover the role of consent, including in romantic and sexual relationships. This includes the law about the age of co...

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