Question reference: S6W-20898
- Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for North East Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: 29 August 2023
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Current status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 26 September 2023
Question
To ask the Scottish Government how many pupils have had musical instrument lessons at school in each year since 2016.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally by the Scottish Government. The Improvement Service’s annual Instrumental Music Survey of local authorities, does, however contain data on number of pupils that participated in instrumental music lessons from academic year 2012-13 to 2021-22 and can be found at the following hyperlink: Improvement Service Survey 2022 . The report highlights that not all local authorities were able to provide responses for all sections of the survey, so care should also be taken when comparing results between different years. We understand that results from the 2022-2023 survey will be published before the end of 2023.