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Edexcel

Volume 448: debated on Wednesday 5 July 2006

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what proportion of (a) GCSE, (b) AS and (c) A-level examinations sat in 2006 will be written by Edexcel. (82002)

These data are collected by the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) in the autumn following each examination series and are normally published in March the following year. Consequently, data on the summer 2006 examination series are not yet available.

The data for 2005 are shown as follows:

Total of examination papers set by Edexcel

Qualification for which examination papers were sat

Total of examination papers set

Number

Percentage

GCSE

1,563

430

27.5

GCE

1,756

478

27.2