SCHOOLS: NATIONAL ANTHEM

Nicholas Soames: To ask the Secretary of State for Education if he will make it his policy that children in all schools in England are taught the National Anthem. [121395]

Elizabeth Truss, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Education [holding answer 18 September 2012]:It is a matter for individual schools to decide whether to teach pupils the National Anthem.

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