Plurilingual and Intercultural Education Debate

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Department: Department for Education

Plurilingual and Intercultural Education

Baroness Hooper Excerpts
Tuesday 18th October 2022

(2 years, 1 month ago)

Lords Chamber
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Baroness Hooper Portrait Baroness Hooper (Con)
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My Lords, given that English is the most spoken language in the world and that Spanish, as a first language, is the second most spoken language, will my noble friend reassure me that priority will always be given to the teaching of Spanish?

Baroness Barran Portrait Baroness Barran (Con)
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I thank my noble friend for her question. I am sure she will be pleased, as I am, to note that Spanish is now the second most popular modern foreign language at GCSE with almost 110,000 entries in the academic year 2020-21.