A former Cabinet Minister called for sex education to be made a compulsory subject in all schools during a House of Commons debate in July.
Maria Miller, the former Culture Secretary who steered the same sex marriage Bill through the Commons, is now Chairman of the Women and Equalities Committee.
Currently, primary schools are not required to teach sex education, but local authority-maintained secondary schools must do so. The Department for Education has said that it expects the same from secondary academies, including free schools.
