To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what proportion of schools teach citizenship (a) nationally, (b) in Cumbria and (c) Westmoreland and Lonsdale. (112483)

[holding answer 30 January 2007]: All maintained secondary schools in England have a duty to provide citizenship education, which became a statutory part of the National Curriculum in 2002.

In primary schools, citizenship is delivered as part of a joint non-statutory framework with personal, social and health education (PSHE). We do not collect data on how many schools follow this framework.