---

Arts: Education

Answer

The Department is investing an additional £1.3 billion in school funding, over and above existing expenditure, with core schools funding rising from almost £41 billion in 2017-18 to £43.5 billion in 2019-20.

In addition to funding which schools receive to deliver their curriculum, the Government funds a wide range of music and cultural education programmes to ensure that every child, whatever their background, has access to a high quality arts education. The attached table shows total funding from the Department for these programmes.

In maintained schools, music and art and design are compulsory subjects and although academies and free schools are not required to teach the national curriculum, they can use it as a benchmark. Beyond this, it is for schools to decide how best to deliver their curriculum and we have not made an assessment of trends in the level of expenditure from the public purse on (a) time, (b) staff and (c) facilities associated with the creative arts in schools across England.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

127216

Session

2017-19

Attachment

Departmental Funding for these programmes

Grouped for answer

Yes

Subjects

Arts Education Expenditure Schools

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

View this Written question on www.parliament.uk