GCE A-level: Languages

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many pupils took A-levels in (a) French, (b) German, (c) Italian, (d) Spanish and (e) Russian in each year since 2000. (141416)

The figures requested are in the following table.

*GCE A-level entries in selected languages by 16 to 18-year-old*¹ *candidates,* *all schools and colleges, 1999/2000 to 2005/*06
	French	German	Italian	Spanish	Russian
2000	15,240	7,581	585	4,516	490
2001	15,393	7,607	565	4,501	442
2002	13,599	6,367	582	4,430	415
2003	12,904	6,068	531	4,504	485
2004	12,480	5,643	516	4,650	451
2005	11,963	5,238	508	4,930	547
2006	12,190	5,534	577	5,202	522
¹ Age at start of academic year (at previous 31 August).

Volume 462: debated on Thursday 28 June 2007