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Michael Gove: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families with reference to the answer of 28 October 2008, Official Report, columns 1011-12W, on specialised diplomas, how many people who embarked on a diploma course in each local authority embarked on a (a) foundation, (b) higher and (c) advanced level. [240796]

Jim Knight: The following table shows the number of diploma learners by level in each local authority involved in delivery from 2008.

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Local authority	Level learners	Level 2 learners	Level 3 learners
Barking and Dagenham	22	40	15
Barnsley	5	51	23
Birmingham	48	148	22
Blackburn with Darwen	0	6	0
Bolton	43	56	14
Bradford	0	51	26
Brighton and Hove	10	23	6
Bromley	64	110	24
Buckinghamshire	8	37	0
Bury	0	31	15
Calderdale	34	74	0
Cambridgeshire	0	51	16
Cheshire	30	125	14
Cornwall	9	130	26
Coventry	9	96	0
Croydon	8	20	0
Cumbria	9	78	31
Derby	10	17	0
Derbyshire	7	86	7
Dorset	21	36	8
Dudley	0	85	54
Durham	0	10	0
Ealing	24	20	18
East Sussex	102	199	41
Gateshead	0	39	10
Gloucestershire	0	20	0
Hackney	23	109	9
Halton	12	13	0
Hammersmith and Fulham	15	32	19
Hampshire	16	113	27
Haringey	10	16	0
Harrow	0	6	0
Hartlepool	11	19	0
Hertfordshire	122	352	107
Hillingdon	0	0	16
Hounslow	2	49	0
Hull (Kingston Upon}	5	62	16
Islington	0	71	18
Kent	16	109	30
Kirklees	16	55	0
Knowsley	24	144	22
Lambeth (joint Southwark)	42	154	11
Lancashire	18	82	0
Leeds	21	71	30
Leicestershire	33	78	8
Lewisham	0	29	0
Lincolnshire	43	374	54
Liverpool	19	114	112
Luton	0	15	8
Manchester	87	78	7
Medway	39	176	104
Middlesbrough	27	67	31
Milton Keynes	35	10	0
Newcastle Upon Tyne	115	97	70
Newham	181	268	120
Norfolk	91	102	38
North East Lincolnshire	0	18	0
North Somerset	0	121	11
North Tyneside	19	65	28
North Yorkshire	0	20	0
Northamptonshire	3	114	0
Nottingham City	94	94	53
Nottinghamshire	25	101	5
Oldham	26	22	27
Oxfordshire	82	61	0
Plymouth City	15	109	36
Reading	84	117	113
Rochdale	0	54	38
Rotherham	6	54	0
Rutland	0	49	0
Salford	24	116	20
Sefton	0	11	11
Sheffield	7	144	22
Shropshire	0	18	0
Solihull	0	48	14
Somerset	21	55	0
South Gloucestershire	54	365	6
Southend-on-Sea	4	32	0
Southwark	12	16	21
St. Helens	0	17	0
Staffordshire	0	109	0
Stoke on Trent	52	118	51
Suffolk	16	15	9
Sunderland	0	145	0
Surrey	33	112	16
Swindon	39	88	71
Tameside	9	18	16
Torbay	9	88	18
Tower Hamlets	40	14	12
Trafford	29	112	0
Wakefield	0	5	0
Walsall	0	52	0
Waltham Forest	0	35	0
Wandsworth	0	17	0
Warrington	0	27	27
West Sussex	12	25	9
Wiltshire	16	67	0
Wolverhampton	71	160	70
Worcestershire	43	72	11
York City	24	128	53

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