Curriculum and Assessment Review - 5th November 2025

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate Curriculum and Assessment Review.

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2025-11-05/debates/D2C0311B-E906-48E8-A269-9018F5062362/CurriculumandAssessmentReview

13:37 Laura Trott (Conservative)

Fourthly, the Education Secretary will introduce a new compulsory citizenship curriculum for primary schools. Forcing primary schools to use precious time to teach deprived pupils about media literacy and climate change before ensuring that they can read, write and add up is not going to encourage social mobility, which I thought Labour Members cared about. It is not clear at all how they are going to make time for this. What aspects of children’s education are being sacrificed for the Secretary of State’s political posturing?

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