To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many schools and colleges in each London local authority offered international baccalaureates in the latest period for which figures are available. (168649)

Currently, there are three maintained schools and colleges in London offering the international baccalaureate (IB). They are in Bexley, Enfield and Richmond upon Thames. A fourth local authority, Tower Hamlets, will have a school offering the IB from September 2008.

There are also independent schools in the following local authorities currently offering the IB: Barnet, Croydon, Hammersmith and Fulham, Harrow, Hillingdon, Kensington and Chelsea, Lewisham, Merton and Westminster.