Written Question·Department for Education·UIN 77099

Schools: Curriculum

Tabled: 15 September 2025
Answered: 14 October 2025

Question

Suella Braverman

Reform UKFareham and Waterlooville

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has issued guidance to schools that have amended their subject curricula due to staff shortages.

Answer

Georgia Gould
Schools have the flexibility to organise the content and delivery of the curriculum to meet the needs of their pupils and to suit their local contexts.There is no prescription about the number of teaching hours for each subject, or about the format of les...

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