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PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
(15 April 2026)

Question Asked

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.

Asked by:
Rachel Blake (Labour)

Answer

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.


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