To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many and what proportion of secondary schools with sixth forms submitted one or more pupils for A-levels in (a) 1997-98, (b) 2000-01, (c) 2005-06 and (d) 2006-07 in (i) mathematics, (ii) physics, (iii) chemistry, (iv) French and (v) a modern language. (182895)

The information to answer part (d) is as follows:

These figures relate to 16 to 18-year-olds (age at the start of the academic year, i.e. 31 August 2006) in all maintained schools.

‘Any Modern Language’ includes Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Gujarati, Italian, Japanese, Modern Greek, Modern Hebrew, Panjabi, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish and Urdu.

To answer parts (a), (b), and (c) would go over the disproportionate cost threshold.