Written Question·Department for Education·UIN 100928

Sign Language: GCSE

Tabled: 17 December 2025
Answered: 8 January 2026

Question

Alberto Costa

ConservativeSouth Leicestershire

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she has taken to encourage exam boards to offer the British Sign Language GCSE.

Answer

Georgia Gould
The government, working with the Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation (Ofqual), has developed the content and assessment arrangements for a new British Sign Language (BSL) GCSE. Now that Ofqual’s final qualification rules have been publish...

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