Question follow-through · 105620
Languages: GCSE
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will hold discussions with exam boards on offering GCSEs in Tamil.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 14 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 20 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 10 Apr 2026 · 86 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
14 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will hold discussions with exam boards on offering GCSEs in Tamil.
20 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 Apr 2026
Answer published
Decisions about which languages to offer at GCSE in England are taken by four independent awarding organisations – AQA, OCR, Pearson Edexcel and WJEC – rather than by central government. These organisations have the freedom to create a Tamil GCSE based on...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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