Written question asked by Nick Gibb (Conservative) on Tuesday, 8 July 2003, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 1 September 2003. It was answered by Stephen Twigg (Labour) on Monday, 1 September 2003 on behalf of the Department for Education and Skills.

Dept for Education and Skills

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, pursuant to his Answer of 2nd April 2003 at 402 c730W, what estimate he has made of the number of pupils in maintained schools who will take GCSE (a) French, (b) Spanish and (c) German in each year between 2003 to 2010.

Answer: Mr. Gibb: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills pursuant to his answer of 2 April 2003, Official Report, column 730W, what estimate he has made of the number of pupils in maintained schools who will take GCSE (a) French, (b) Spanish and (c) German in each year between 2003 to 2010. [125326] Mr. Stephen Twigg: We have made no estimate of the number of pupils who will take GCSE French, Spanish and German in future years. The number of pupils who have taken GCSEs in specific modern foreign languages this year will be available in the autumn.

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