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Lucy PowellLabour PartyEducation

Publish curriculum and assessment reform proposals

“Our curriculum and assessment reform will go hand in hand with that ambition, and we will soon publish proposals building on the Becky Francis review.”

PromisedCommons statement, 9 Sep 2026
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Where it stands

No date was given ("soon"), so the card has no deadline. The independent Curriculum and Assessment Review, chaired by Professor Becky Francis, published its final report on 5 November 2025, alongside a government response.

What has happened

  1. Sep 2026Lucy Powell tells the Commons that proposals for curriculum and assessment reform building on the Becky Francis review will be published soon, Promised

About the cost

No separate cost: publishing proposals costs nothing of its own, and the Department for Education has published no costing. Its November 2025 response to the Curriculum and Assessment Review sets the timetable, aiming to publish the final revised national curriculum by spring 2027, but gives no overall cost for the reform.

More detail

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Corrections (2): what we fixed, in public
  1. Corrected on 8 Oct 2026: Cost note in version 1The note said only that no costing was published. It now says why the promise has no separate cost and what the Department for Education has published.Was: “No costing published.”Now: “No separate cost: publishing proposals costs nothing of its own, and the Department for Education has published no costing. Its November 2025 response to the Curriculum and Assessment Review sets the timetable, aiming to publish the final revised national curriculum by spring 2027, but gives no overall cost for the reform.”Source for the correction
  2. Corrected on 8 Oct 2026: Costing sources in version 1The note said only that no costing was published. It now says why the promise has no separate cost and what the Department for Education has published.Was: not givenNow: DfE: Government response to the Curriculum and Assessment Review (5 Nov 2025)Source for the correction
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