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Written question asked by Nick Gibb (Conservative) on Thursday, 4 March 2010, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Tuesday, 9 March 2010. It was answered by Lord Coaker (Labour) on Wednesday, 7 April 2010 on behalf of the Department for Children, Schools and Families.


GCSE: Humanities and Languages

Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many mainstream maintained secondary schools entered no pupils for a GCSE in (a) a modern foreign language, (b) history and (c) geography in (i) 2007, (ii) 2008 and (iii) 2009.
Answer

[holding answer 9 March 2010]: The number of open maintained mainstream secondary schools that entered no pupils for GCSEs in the specified subjects is shown in the following table.

(i) 2007 (ii) 2008 (iii) 2009
(a) a modern foreign language 25 24 24
(b) history 59 59 53
(c) geography 83 95 121

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
508 c1459W; 321218
Session
2009-10
Subjects
GCSE
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
View this Written question on www.publications.parliament.uk