Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the potential benefits of introducing Romanian as an approved subject within the General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE); and whether it has plans to support the development and accreditation of a Romanian GCSE qualification.

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 Romanian GCSE based on the subject content for modern foreign languages set by the department.