Department for Education written question – answered at on 10 April 2026.
Gareth Thomas
Labour/Co-operative, Harrow West
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will hold discussions with exam boards on offering GCSEs in Tamil.
Georgia Gould
Minister of State (Education)
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 Tamil GCSE based on the subject content for modern foreign languages set by the department. This decision would be informed by several factors, including the level of demand from schools and the proportion of the population in the UK speaking the language.
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