A question on #Pupils #Ukraine tabled by Lord Alton of Liverpool on 03-03-2025 has been answered by Baroness Smith of Malvern.

Heading: Pupils: Ukraine
Question ID: 1780674
UIN: HL5393
House: Lords
Date tabled: 2025-03-03
Asking Member ID: 738
Asking Member display name: Lord Alton of Liverpool
Asking Member handle: DavidAltonHL
Asking Member Twitter reference: @DavidAltonHL
Member interest: false
Question text: To ask His Majesty's Government whether they will consider teaching Ukrainian to GCSE and A-level standards in some schools and commit to overcoming any obstacles preventing this from happening.
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Date answered: 2025-04-02
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Is correcting answer: false
Answering Member ID: 269
Answering Member display name: Baroness Smith of Malvern
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Answering Member Twitter reference: Baroness Smith of Malvern
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Answer text: Decisions about which languages to offer at GCSE in England are taken by the four independent awarding organisations, AQA, OCR, Pearson Edexcel and WJEC, rather than by central government. Awarding organisations are free to produce a GCSE in any modern la...
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Answering body ID: 60
Answering body name: Department for Education
Tweeted: true