Religious Conscience And The National Curriculum

EDM number 615 in 1989-90, proposed by David Alton on 26/02/1990.

That this House urges education Ministers, when drafting new measures to give effect to the use of technology in the context of the national curriculum, to have regard to the wishes of dissenting parents who ask for their children to be withdrawn from particular courses on account of sincerely held religious beliefs.

This motion has been signed by a total of 62 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.