Review of Micheal Gove's Letter

Having read the very negative petition set up by The Drama Army I was very surprised to find Micheal Gove's letter to appear as being very positively minded towards the Arts and demonstrates an appreciation of the value and importance of Arts within Education, "recognize that creativity is the key to both cultural and economic progress" and " no programmer of education can begin without making the arts and creativity central to a child's life". 

However with the Introduction of the Ebacc system and the removal of the Arts within this, his actions are speaking differently to his opinion for the Arts. 

He discusses that "Music and Art will continue to be statutory subjects for all children between the ages of 5 and 14". He doesn't include GCSE level nor Dance and Drama so it is unclear as to the position of these subjects for the future. Does this imply that he doesn't see a specific relevance to Drama and Dance within Education?

On Reflection, while this appears to be supportive of the Arts in Education, I would need to gain specific clarification of where Drama and Dance would be for the future. He is appearing to be a little hypocritical by stating "creativity is the key" where he continually discusses the importance of  the core Academic subjects that need improving on in his opinion, with his introduction to the Ebacc system.