Written question asked by Alan Milburn (Labour) on Tuesday, 12 May 2009, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 14 May 2009. It was answered by Sarah McCarthy-Fry (Labour) on Monday, 1 June 2009 on behalf of the Department for Children, Schools and Families.

Gifted Children

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many and what proportion of (a) primary and (b) secondary school pupils in (i) each region of England and (ii) Darlington are on gifted and talented programmes.

Answer: The Department does not collect data on pupils participating in gifted and talented programmes. Through the School Census schools are asked to confirm the gifted and talented pupils they have identified. I have placed in the House Libraries a table showing the number and percentage of identified gifted and talented pupils in maintained primary and secondary schools at January 2008, broken down by local authority and region. This shows that the figures for Darlington are 3.7 per cent. (primary) and 13.6 per cent. (secondary), against national figures of 8.1 per cent. and 13.6 per cent. respectively.

Secondary information

Type: Written question
Reference: 493 c243W;493 c244W; 275751
Session: 2008-09
Related items: Deposited Paper DEP2009-1594
Tuesday, 2 June 2009
Deposited papers
House of Commons
Subjects: Gifted children
Contains statistics: Yes
Link: View this Written question on www.publications.parliament.uk