Science: General Certificate of Secondary Education

Mr. Laws

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many maintained secondary schools entered one or more students for separate science GCSEs in each year since 2001. (187209)

The information can be provided only at disproportionate cost.

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what proportion of 16-year-olds in maintained secondary schools were entered for GCSE, dual award science, in each year since 2001. (187210)

The information requested is provided in the following table:

	Number of 15-year-olds in maintained secondary schools entered for science dual award	Percentage of 15-year-olds in maintained secondary schools entered for science dual award
2006/07	406,021	69.9
2005/06	414,291	72.2
2004/05	423,496	72.6
2003/04	455,918	77.3
2002/03	451,665	79.0
2001/02	446,769	77.1
2000/01	445,487	77.3

Figures relate to 15-year-olds (age at start of the academic year, i.e. 31 August).

Volume 472: debated on Thursday 21 February 2008