We are taking positive steps to improve mental health support for learners in further education and across the whole education sector. Work is already under way and further options are being framed for future implementation and to ensure a joined-up approach across education sectors and with Public Health Wales.

I regularly visit schools, and talk to head teachers and local authorities about school funding. I have listened to the evidence presented to the recent Children, Young People and Education Committee inquiry in to school funding, which demonstrates the complexity of the current system.

Figures published by the Education Workforce Council show that as at 1 March 2019, there were 923 registered secondary trained schoolteachers in Wales who had undertaken their initial teacher education to teach a modern foreign language subject.

Education provision is the responsibility of the local authority. It must decide how many and what type of schools and services should be provided, in line with 'Our national mission' aims to provide the best possible outcomes for all students.