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Irish-Medium Schools

Volume 407: debated on Wednesday 25 June 2003

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To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many children attend Northern Ireland's Irish medium schools; how many attended in each of the last five years; and what the estimated number of children expected to attend is for each of the next ten years, including annual percentage changes. [120941]

Information on the number of children expected to attend Irish Medium schools in the next 10 years is not available. Information for this year and the past five years is as follows:

NumberChange from previous year (%)
1997–981,375+18.7
1998–991,512+9.6
1999–20001,657+9.6
2000–011,846+11.4
2001–021,971+6.8
2002–032,019+2.4