General Certificate of Secondary Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families with reference to the answer of 19 November 2008, Official Report, columns 635-6W, on the General Certificate of Secondary Education, how many and what percentage of pupils in the maintained, mainstream sector achieved five GCSEs including a modern language GCSE at grades A* to C in each year since 2004, broken down by index of multiple deprivation deciles. (243449)

The information requested can be provided only at a disproportionate cost. The information relating to the proportion of pupils achieving A*-C in one Modern Foreign Language GCSE in 2008 is available in the following table:

*Pupils at the end of key stage 4 achieving A*-C in a modern foreign language GCSE or equivalent by IDACI deprivation decile of known pupil residence, 2008*¹
IDACI decile	Number of pupils achieving A-C in one Modern Foreign Language*	Percentage of pupils achieving A-C in one Modern Foreign Language*
0 -10% most deprived	10,023	14.6
10-20%	11,101	17.5
20-30%	11,708	19.8
30-40%	13,077	22.8
40-50%	14,350	25.5
50-60%	15,914	29.1
60-70%	17,506	32.1
70-80%	19,352	35.0
80-90%	21,800	38.5
90-100% least deprived	26,299	45.4
¹ Provisional. Source: National Pupil Database

Volume 486: debated on Thursday 15 January 2009