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Languages: General Certificate of Secondary Education

Michael Gove: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families (1) how many and what proportion of pupils entered for Chinese GCSE were of Chinese ethnicity; [182284]

(2) how many and what proportion of pupils entered for a foreign language GCSE were pupils with English as an additional language. [182285]

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Jim Knight: The information can be provided only at disproportionate cost.

Michael Gove: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many and what proportion of pupils were entered for a modern language GCSE in 2007, broken down by local authority. [182290]

Jim Knight: A table showing the number and proportion of pupils entered for a modern language GCSE in 2007, broken down by local authority, has been placed in the Library. Information on GCSE and equivalent results can be found in the SFR “GCSE and Equivalent Examination Results in England 2006/07 (Revised)”, available at:

http://www.dfes.gov.uk/rsgateway/DB/SFR/s000768/index.shtml.

Literacy: Greater London

Tom Brake: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many and what
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percentage of children met the Government’s literacy and numeracy targets in each London borough in each of the last five years. [180608]

Jim Knight: Tables 1 and 2 provide the information requested on the percentage of pupils achieving national curriculum level 4 or above at key stage 2 in English and in mathematics; and level 5 or above in English and in mathematics at key stage 3. Level 4 is the level expected to be reached by pupils at the end of key stage 2 (i.e. about age 11), and level 5 is that expected by pupils at the end of key stage 3 (at age 14). There are no targets for the current comprehensive spending review that relate to literacy and mathematics at key stage 4 (i.e. when pupils take GCSEs and equivalent qualifications). However, the information on the percentage of pupils achieving five or more higher grades at GCSE including English and mathematics in each London borough is published and is included in table 3.

Information on the number of pupils achieving the target levels in each local authority is not available.

Table 1: Percentage of pupils attaining level 4 or better at the end of key stage 2 for each London authority, 2003 to 2007
	2003		2004		2005		2006		2007( 1)
LA name	English	Maths	English	Maths	English	Maths	English	Maths	English	Maths
Barking and Dagenham	71	69	73	71	75	70	74	73	77	76
Barnet	81	78	84	81	84	81	85	82	85	82
Bexley	77	69	79	71	80	74	81	75	84	79
Brent	77	72	78	74	78	73	79	73	80	75
Bromley	83	78	83	78	84	77	85	79	84	78
Camden	78	74	77	73	79	73	75	72	78	76
City of London	97	79	80	73	83	74	64	71	96	96
Croydon	78	71	79	74	78	72	81	75	81	75
Ealing	77	73	78	73	79	75	79	75	80	78
Enfield	78	72	77	73	77	73	79	72	78	75
Greenwich	70	67	70	68	73	68	74	71	73	72
Hackney	63	59	70	65	69	64	71	64	73	66
Hammersmith and Fulham	79	76	77	73	79	74	81	74	81	78
Haringey	67	66	70	67	73	68	75	70	76	74
Harrow	82	77	84	80	82	78	85	79	82	79
Havering	80	78	81	78	85	81	84	80	84	81
Hillingdon	80	75	79	77	80	77	81	77	82	77
Hounslow	76	73	77	73	79	75	80	77	79	77
Islington	69	68	71	68	74	68	74	68	77	74
Kensington and Chelsea	84	79	87	82	84	81	85	80	87	83
Kingston upon Thames	83	77	85	80	86	82	86	82	85	81
Lambeth	72	67	76	70	76	68	78	70	77	71
Lewisham	73	69	73	70	77	72	79	71	76	74
Merton	75	66	75	72	78	74	81	75	79	77
Newham	68	67	71	70	75	72	76	72	75	73
Redbridge	78	74	79	77	83	79	82	78	84	81
Richmond upon Thames	87	82	87	83	88	85	89	85	88	84
Southwark	70	62	69	64	72	67	74	69	76	72
Sutton	81	77	80	76	83	78	83	79	85	82
Tower Hamlets	74	71	77	75	78	76	80	78	81	78
Waltham Forest	70	68	73	69	73	69	77	72	76	75
Wandsworth	75	67	75	71	80	72	78	73	80	77
Westminster	80	77	82	77	81	76	84	76	83	77
National average	75	73	78	74	79	75	79	76	80	77
(1) Amended figures following publication of the Primary Achievement and Attainment Tables in December 2007.

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