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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

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

Type
Written question
Reference
20226; 519 c98-104W
Session
2010-12
Subjects
Languages GCSE
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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