Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans she has to announce which A-levels will no longer be available in (a) 2015-16, (b) 2016-17 and (c) 2017-18.

Ofqual has already announced the A levels which will be withdrawn from September 2015. The list of subjects can be found here

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/381968/2014-12-02-completing-gcse-as-and-a-level-reform.pdf

Ofqual will announce the list of A levels that will no longer be available from September 2016 shortly.

In June 2014 Ofqual consulted on a set of proposals about how GCSE and A level subject availability should be determined from September 2017, and will announce its decisions shortly. Ofqual has been clear that any subject not reformed for first teaching in 2015 or 2016 must either be reformed for first teaching in 2017 or withdrawn.