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Number of 16-year olds
	Maintained schools( 1)	Independent schools( 2)	Sixth form college	Other FE( 3)	Total	WBL	Part-time education	Total education and WBL( 4)	Population
Essex	5,300	400	2,300	5,000	13,000	900	600	14,500	17,400
Southend-on-Sea	800	—	200	500	1,500	100	100	1,600	2,000
Thurrock	100	—	800	500	1,400	100	100	1,500	1,900

Table 2 : Participation in education and training of 16 year olds by LEAs in Essex, 200 4 , f ull-time education
Percentage of 16-year olds
	Maintained schools( 1)	Independent schools( 2)	Sixth form college	Other FE( 3)	Total	WBL	Part-time education	Total education and WBL( 4)
Essex	31	3	12	27	73	5	3	83
Southend-on-Sea	39	0	10	26	74	6	2	82
Thurrock	4	0	36	27	66	5	3	74

Number of 16-year olds
	Maintained schools( 1)	Independent schools( 2)	Sixth form college	Other FE( 3)	Total	WBL	Part-time education	Total education and WBL( 4)	Population
Essex	5,400	400	2,100	4,600	12,500	1,100	600	14,300	17,000
Southend-on-Sea	800	—	200	500	1,500	100	—	1,700	2,000
Thurrock	100	—	700	500	1,300	100	100	1,500	2,000
1 Includes all pupils in maintained schools and maintained special schools. (2 )Includes all pupils in independent schools, non-maintained special schools, city technology colleges, academies and pupil referral units. (3) Includes all learners in General FE, tertiary and specialist colleges (e.g. agriculture colleges). (4) Total of all full-time and part-time education and WBL, less WBL provision in education institutions.

Higher Education: EU Nationals

Andrew Rosindell: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many students from EU accession countries have obtained places at London universities in each year since 2004. [168429]

Bill Rammell: I have been asked to reply.

The latest available information is given in the table. Figures for 2006/07 will be available in January 2008.

Entrants to higher education institutions in London ( 1) from EU accession countries ( 2) by level of study Academic years 2003/04 to 2005/06
Level of study	Academic year	Entrants from E U accession countries
Postgraduate	2003/04	495
	2004/05	885
	2005/06	1,090
Undergraduate	2003/04	500
	2004/05	1,455
	2005/06	1,885
Total	2003/04	995
	2004/05	2,335
	2005/06	2,975
(1) Includes all Higher Education Institutions in London Government Office Region. (2) The 10 EU accession countries who joined the EU on the 1 May 2004 are—Czech Republic, Cyprus, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia. Notes: Numbers are on a HESA Standard Registration population basis, and have been rounded to the nearest 5. Source: Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA).

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Bulgaria and Romania also joined the EU in January 2007. This change will be shown in the 2006/07 figures.

International Baccalaureate: Greater London

Mr. Evennett: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many schools and colleges in each London local authority offered international baccalaureates in the latest period for which figures are available. [168649]

Jim Knight: Currently, there are three maintained schools and colleges in London offering the international baccalaureate (IB). They are in Bexley, Enfield and Richmond upon Thames. A fourth local authority, Tower Hamlets, will have a school offering the IB from September 2008.

There are also independent schools in the following local authorities currently offering the IB: Barnet,
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Croydon, Hammersmith and Fulham, Harrow, Hillingdon, Kensington and Chelsea, Lewisham, Merton and Westminster.

Languages: GCE A-Level

Mr. Evans: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what proportion of students in post-16 full-time education were entered for A-level or equivalent examinations in (a) French, (b) German, (c) Spanish, (d) Mandarin Chinese, (e) Russian and (f) another modern foreign language in (i) Ribble Valley, (ii) Lancashire and (iii) England in each year since 1997. [167774]

Jim Knight [holding answer 26 November 2007]: The information required is as follows.

Figures for Ribble Valley are available at only disproportionate cost.

Number of pupils taking GCE A levels in England and Lancashire in academic years 1997-98 to 2006-07
	England
	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007
French	19,629	17,774	15,240	15,393	13,599	12,904	12,480	11,963	12,190	12,173
German	8,903	8,527	7,581	7,607	6,367	6,068	5,643	5,238	5,534	5,631
Spanish	4,499	4,640	4,516	501	4,430	4,504	4,650	4,930	5,202	5,502
Chinese	1,017	1,122	1,185	102	1,400	1,496	1,677	1,606	1,996	1,993
Russian	455	460	490	442	415	485	451	547	522	623
Welsh (2nd language)	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	1
Dutch	6	18	14	32	21	24	49	73	62	69
Italian	556	556	585	565	582	531	516	508	577	542
Modern Greek	153	107	112	87	110	77	93	96	71	86
Portuguese	96	108	118	88	125	102	115	131	141	166
Arabic	0	0	0	167	188	181	218	258	259	277
Bengali	86	42	41	41	37	23	28	44	38	38
Gujarati	0	0	0	0	10	14	21	23	21	29
Hindi	15	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Japanese	317	279	273	183	201	232	203	210	242	223
Modern Hebrew	27	24	21	14	26	36	34	34	51	50
Panjabi	139	89	118	108	50	83	75	96	134	94
Polish	79	84	86	49	68	66	85	92	115	143
Turkish	119	116	129	118	151	171	188	227	223	212
Urdu	390	485	484	413	395	392	443	469	478	420
Persian	0	0	0	0	71	86	83	120	154	147
Total (other)	1,983	1,915	1,981	1,865	2,046	2,018	2,151	2,381	2,566	2,497
Total (all modern languages)	36,486	34,438	30,993	30,910	28,257	27,475	27,052	26,665	28,010	28,419

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