Question follow-through · 65645
Languages: Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to encourage more students to study languages in schools.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 7 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 9 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 15 Jul 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
7 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to encourage more students to study languages in schools.
9 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
15 Jul 2025
Answer published
The study of languages is compulsory under the national curriculum at key stages 2 and 3 for all maintained schools, and will become compulsory in academies, subject to the passage of the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill.The most important factor in ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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