Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make representations to one or more of AQA, OCR, Pearson Edexcel, and WJEC on introducing a Romanian GCSE.

Decisions about which subjects to offer at GCSE are typically taken by the four independent awarding organisations, AQA, OCR, Pearson Edexcel, and WJEC, rather than by central government.

In deciding which language GCSEs to offer, the awarding organisations may consider factors including likely student numbers, the availability of suitably qualified examiners and markers, and whether there is sufficient demand for a qualification to be developed, delivered and awarded securely and consistently over time.