Question follow-through · 127721
Languages: Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what consideration her Department has made of the potential merits of increasing the number of modern foreign languages offered at GCSE level.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 15 Apr 2026
- Target answer date
- 20 Apr 2026
- Answer
- 23 Apr 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
15 Apr 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what consideration her Department has made of the potential merits of increasing the number of modern foreign languages offered at GCSE level.
20 Apr 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 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. These organisations have the freedom to create GCSEs based on subject content set by the department.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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