GCSE: Citizenship

Tim Loughton

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families (1) how many pupils sat a GCSE in citizenship studies in each of the last five years; (276839)

(2) how many pupils sat GCSEs in both citizenship studies and history in each year since 1997.

The information required is given in the table. The GCSE short course in citizenship has only been available for the past five years.

*Number of pupils attempting history and citizenship in 2003/04 to 2007/08*
	GCSE short course in citizenship	Both full GCSE history and GCSE short course in citizenship
2004	24,415	8,365
2005	36,207	11,947
2006	51,296	17,323
2007	67,295	21,739
2008	84,588	26,384
Notes: 1. Figures in 2003/04 relate to 15-year-olds (age at start of academic year, ie 31 August) in all schools. 2. Figures for 2005 onwards relate to pupils at the end of Key Stage 4.

Volume 493: debated on Thursday 4 June 2009