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French Language: Qualifications

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Question for Department for Education

UIN 52781, tabled on 14 November 2016

Question

Catherine West
Labour
Hornsey and Wood Green
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many students took (a) a GCSE and (b) an AS/A2 Level in French in each of the last five years.

Answer

Nick Gibb
Conservative
Bognor Regis and Littlehampton
Commons

Answered on

17 November 2016

The time series for the number of GCSE entries in Spanish, German and French for the last 5 years in England is published in the GCSE and equivalent results: 2015 to 2016 (provisional) statistical first release (SFR)[1].

The time series for the number of A and AS level entries in Spanish, German or French for the last 5 years in England is published in the “A level and other 16 to 18 results: 2015 to 2016 (provisional)” SFR[2].

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/gcse-and-equivalent-results-2015-to-2016-provisional (Subject time series tables)

[2] https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/a-level-and-other-level-3-results-2015-to-2016-provisional (Subject time series tables)

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