Written question asked by Chris Skidmore (Conservative) on Monday, 25 October 2010, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Wednesday, 27 October 2010. It was answered by Nick Gibb (Conservative) on Monday, 22 November 2010 on behalf of the Department for Education.
Languages: GCSE
- Question
- To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many pupils were entered for a GCSE in a modern foreign language in 2009 in each local authority; and what proportion this represented of the total number of pupils entered for GCSEs in 2009 in each case.
- Answer
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The requested information is shown in the following table.
Pupils at the end of KS4 entered for modern foreign language GCSEs: year 2009. Coverage: Pupils in maintained schools (including academies and CTCs). Figures do not include pupils recently arrived from overseas or those in hospital schools or PRUs— only entries in full GCSE courses are included Number of pupils at end KS4 Number of pupils entered for at entered for at least one MFL % entered for at least one MFL England (maintained sector average across all LAs) 576,421 238,657 41 North East 30,670 10,159 33 Darlington 1,188 390 33 Durham 5,740 2,060 36 Gateshead 2,160 929 43 Hartlepool 1,244 320 26 Middlesbrough 1,741 279 16 Newcastle upon Tyne 2,725 876 32 North Tyneside 2,290 853 37 Northumberland 3,800 1,284 34 Redcar and Cleveland 1,914 434 23 South Tyneside 1,913 518 27 Stockton-on-Tees 2,430 947 39 Sunderland 3,525 1,269 36 North West 83,352 32,397 39 Blackburn with Darwen 1,803 469 26 Blackpool 1,648 583 35 Bolton 3,611 1,244 34 Bury 2,221 1,228 55 Cheshire East 4,013 1,741 43 Cheshire West and Chester 3,979 1,631 41 Cumbria 6,077 2,097 35 Halton 1,542 418 27 Knowsley 1,645 589 36 Lancashire 13,657 5,756 42 Liverpool 5,357 2,070 39 Manchester 4,685 1,428 30 Oldham 3,036 862 28 Rochdale 2,612 778 30 Salford 2,347 552 24 Sefton 3,537 1,709 48 St. Helens 2,156 714 33 Stockport 3,041 1,392 46 Tameside 2,994 1,049 35 Trafford 2,895 1,677 58 Warrington 2,570 1,013 39 Wigan 3,929 1,588 40 Wirral 3,997 1,809 45 Yorkshire and Humber 60,857 22,581 37 Barnsley 2,642 717 27 Bradford 5,876 2,174 37 Calderdale 2,630 1,092 42 Doncaster 3,681 846 23 East Riding of Yorkshire 4,015 1,793 45 Kingston upon Hull, City of 2,914 787 27 Kirklees 4,708 1,870 40 Leeds 8,272 3,054 37 North East Lincolnshire 1,955 661 34 North Lincolnshire 2,030 738 36 North Yorkshire 6,990 3,187 46 Rotherham 3,676 1,112 30 Sheffield 5,740 1,839 32 Wakefield 4,014 1,739 43 York 1,714 972 57 East Midlands 51,663 21,950 42 Derby 2,862 1,203 42 Derbyshire 8,909 3,471 39 Leicester 3,496 1,628 47 Leicestershire 7,391 3,520 48 Lincolnshire 8,473 3,841 45 Northamptonshire 8,027 3,487 43 Nottingham 2,788 1,051 38 Nottinghamshire 9,243- 3,491 38 Rutland 474 258 54 West Midlands 64,883 24,246 37 Birmingham 12,292 4,531 37 Coventry 3,534 1,209 34 Dudley 3,965 1,411 36 Herefordshire 1,920 828 43 Sandwell 3,615 692 19 Shropshire 3,214 1,477 46 Solihull 3,074 1,260 41 Staffordshire 9,853 4,187 42 Stoke-on-Trent 2,720 658 24 Telford and Wrekin 2,115 740 35 Walsall 3,710 986 27 Warwickshire 5,942 2,484 42 Wolverhampton 2,742 919 34 Worcestershire 6,187 2,864 46 East of England 65,171 27,354 42 Bedford 1,859 641 34 Cambridgeshire 5,843 2,659 46 Central Bedfordshire 2,867 1,054 37 Essex 16,136 6,201 38 Hertfordshire 13,000 7,015 54 Luton 2,410 725 30 Norfolk 8,922 3,483 39 Peterborough 2,287 1,016 44 Southend-on-Sea 2,203 894 41 Suffolk 7,772 3,026 39 Thurrock 1,872 640 34 London 73,721 35,798 49 Inner London 22,960 10,577 46 Camden 1,442 752 52 Hackney 1,346 710 53 Hammersmith and Fulham 1,051 592 56 Haringey 2,160 810 38 Islington 1,414 605 43 Kensington and Chelsea 569 323 57 Lambeth 1,560 734 47 Lewisham 2,136 779 36 Newham 3,401 1,945 57 Southwark 2,366 821 35 Tower Hamlets 2,353 894 38 Wandsworth 1,854 1,029 56 Westminster 1,308 583 45 Outer London 50,761 25,221 50 Barking and Dagenham 2,044 513 25 Barnet 3,236 1,927 60 Bexley 3,187 1,363 43 Brent 2,793 1,473 53 Bromley 3,509 1,624 46 Croydon 3,651 2,065 57 Ealing 2,793 1,408 50 Enfield 3,622 1,983 55 Greenwich 2,415 797 33 Harrow 2,155 1,088 50 Havering 3,024 1,596 53 Hillingdon 2,919 1,143 39 Hounslow 2,542 1,601 63 Kingston upon Thames 1,487 951 64 Merton 1,561 575 37 Redbridge 3,241 1,726 53 Richmond upon Thames 1,407 719 51 Sutton 2,595 1,551 60 Waltham Forest 2,580 1,118 43 South East 89,497 39,634 44 Bracknell Forest 1,112 464 42 Brighton and Hove 2,289 955 42 Buckinghamshire 5,584 2,848 51 East Sussex 5,197 1,776 34 Hampshire 14,084 6,550 47 Isle of Wight 1,513 460 30 Kent 16,698 6,619 40 Medway 3,385 1,157 34 Milton Keynes 2,642 1,148 43 Oxfordshire 6,309 3,022 48 Portsmouth 1,993 701 35 Reading 958 407 42 Slough 1,488 913 61 Southampton 2,257 717 32 Surrey 10,511 5,244 50 West Berkshire 2,000 1,207 West Sussex 8,230 3,832 Windsor and Maidenhead 1,542 783 51 Wokingham 1,705 831 49 South West 56,607 24,538 43 Isles of Scilly 15 4 27 Bath and North East Somerset 2,172 1,099 51 Bournemouth 1,780 666 37 Bristol, City of 3,131 1,078 34 Cornwall 5,987 2,033 34 Devon 7,704 3,154 41 Dorset 4,366 2,349 54 Gloucestershire 6,882 3,325 48 North Somerset 2,265 856 38 Plymouth 2,966 1,474 50 Poole 1,684 956 57 Somerset 5,688 1,937 34 South Gloucestershire 3,107 1,538 50 Swindon 2,259 656 29 Torbay 1,518 619 41 Wiltshire 5,083 2,794 55
Secondary information
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- Reference
- 20226; 519 c98-104W
- Session
- 2010-12
- Subjects
- Languages GCSE
- Contains statistics
- Yes
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