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Languages: Education

Asked by Rachel BlakeLabour (Co-op)Department for EducationTabled Answered 23 April 2026UIN 127721

The question

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.

Answered by Georgia Gould

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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