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General Certificate of Secondary Education

Volume 481: debated on Thursday 23 October 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families (1) pursuant to the answer of 7 October 2008, Official Report, columns 590-91W, on the general certificate of secondary education, what estimate he has made of the cost of providing the requested information in full; (227379)

(2) pursuant to the answer of 7 October 2008, Official Report, column 591W, on languages: general certificate of secondary education, what estimate he has made of the cost of providing the requested information.

It was estimated that the cost of answering the closely related questions would be over £4,000.

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what proportion of pupils who did not gain a single grade C or above at GCSE in 2008 were resident in the 50 per cent. most deprived areas of the country. (228836)

The Department publishes the following GCSE attainment indicators by deprivation of residence in the National Pupil Database (NPD) Statistical First Release.

Proportion of pupils at the end of key stage 4 achieving five or more A*-C grades;

Proportion of pupils at the end of key stage 4 achieving five or more A*-C grades including English and Maths; and

Proportion of pupils at the end of key stage 4 achieving any passes.

2008 information will be published in December.