To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families when he expects constituency-level data on GCSE and equivalent results for the 2008-09 academic year to be published. (301876)

The Department intends to publish the parliamentary constituency-level data on GCSE and equivalent results for the year 2008-09 approximately three to four weeks after the publication of the Achievement and Attainment Tables, which are scheduled for publication in January 2010.

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families with reference to his press release of 16 November 2009, Put children and young people at the heart of the care system, what the evidential basis is for the statement that the number of young people achieving good GCSEs has doubled in the last two years. (303657)

We have checked the care matters ministerial stocktake report and press notice. The report correctly said:

“In 2008 14 per cent. of children in care achieved 5 A*-C at GCSE (2008)—double the figure of 7 per cent. in 2000”. But the press notice included an error which said:

“In just two years the number of young people achieving good GCSEs has doubled”.

We have corrected the press release online.