Current status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 27 March 2025
To ask the Scottish Government how many young people have received music tuition in schools in each local authority area in each year since 1999.
Whilst data from 1999 is not held by Scottish Government, the Improvement Service’s annual Instrumental Music Survey of local authorities contains data on the number of pupils that participated in instrumental music lessons from academic year 2013-2014 to 2023-24.
The most recent Instrumental Music survey published in January 2025 confirmed that uptake in 2023-24 was the highest proportion of the school roll participating in IMS since 2017. Page 9 of the document contains a table with the number of instrumental music pupils per authority from 2016-17 until 2023-24.
In order to access data from 2012-13 you can access the 2021 Instrumental Music survey report.