Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer. Can I thank Suzy Davies for giving me a minute in this debate, but also for bringing it forward? I want to concentrate on GCSE options. Without a GCSE in a foreign language, pupils are unlikely to go on to an A-level or a degree in that foreign language. In a Welsh-medium school a pupil will study Welsh language and literature, English language and literature, mathematics, double science and the Welsh baccalaureate. They will be left with three or four other subjects to choose from the different groups available. Is it any surprise that the numbers studying GCSE French and German have reduced? Language Trends Wales states that only 2 per cent of Welsh pupils take a GCSE in a language other than English or Welsh.

I can put some possible solutions: allow pupils to do single science and double modern language; make a modern language compulsory at GCSE; or we can carry on as we are and assume everyone in the world will speak English, especially if we speak loudly.