It is the first inquiry to be held by the recently formed All-Party Parliamentary Group on RE (APPG) and it will look at the way teachers are trained to teach the subject.
The APPG has issued a call for evidence in light of the fact that there has been no formal review of RE within the government’s national curriculum review.
The MPs, who hope to publish a report in early 2013, are also concerned about the decline of RE provision after the subject was excluded from the English Baccalaureate.
A statement from the APPG said: “Parliamentary questions and research among schools, young people and teachers appear to show that the subject is being marginalised at the very time that high levels of religious literacy are becoming even more important in our interconnected, modern world.”
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