Written question asked by Jonathan Lord (Conservative) on Friday, 13 April 2012, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Tuesday, 17 April 2012. It was answered by Nick Gibb (Conservative) on Wednesday, 25 April 2012 on behalf of the Department for Education.

Curriculum: Languages

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many pupils took a foreign language at GCSE level in (a) Woking constituency, (b) Surrey and (c) England in 2011; and what proportion achieved grades A* to C.

Answer

The information requested has been provided in the following table for 2010/11 for England, Surrey and for Woking constituency.

Number and percentage of pupils at the end of Key Stage 4¹, ² taking a foreign language GCSE³, 4 and the percentage achieving an A*-C grade, 2010/115
	England6	Surrey7	Woking8
Number of pupils taking a foreign language GCSE	217,659	5,337	533
Percentage of pupils taking a foreign language GCSE	38.5	49.8	62.9
Of which:
Percentage achieving an A*-C grade	70.5	71.7	78.0
¹ Figures do not include pupils recently arrived from overseas.
² Figures include all maintained schools, including CTCs and academies.
³ Figures include French, German, Spanish, Dutch, Italian, Modern Greek, Portuguese, Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Gujarati, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Panjabi, Polish, Russian, Turkish, Urdu, Persian, Danish, Hindi, Latin, Classical Greek and Biblical Hebrew.
4 Full GCSEs only have been included (Full GCSEs, double awards, accredited international certificates and their predecessor iGCSEs).
5 Includes attempts and achievements by these pupils in previous academic years.
6 England figures are the sum of all local authorities.
7 Local authority figures are based on the local authority maintaining the school or in the case of CTCs and academies the local authority in which the school is situated.
8 Parliamentary constituency figures are based on the postcode of the school.
Source:
National Pupil Database (2010/11 revised data)

Secondary information