Citizenship and History: Secondary Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many and what proportion of pupils at maintained mainstream schools at the end of Key Stage 4 took examinations in (a) citizenship but not history, (b) history but not citizenship, (c) citizenship and history and (d) neither history nor citizenship in each of the last five years. (301040)

The information required is given in the following table.

The figures relate to entries in full GCSE history and the GCSE short course in citizenship. A full GCSE in citizenship course only started in September 2009 and information on entries to this course are not yet available.

*Pupils entered into GCSE short course in citizenship onlyPupils entered into GCSE full course in history onlyPupils entered into bothPupils entered for neither*
	Number	Percentage	Number	Percentage	Number	Percentage	Number	Percentage
2005	23,657	4.1	169,164	29.4	11,563	2.0	370,298	64.4
2006	33,332	5.7	167,070	28.6	16,988	2.9	366,979	62.8
2007	44,859	7.6	158,828	26.9	21,347	3.6	365,754	61.9
2008	57,382	9.8	154,189	26.2	26,015	4.4	350,633	59.6
2009	61,981	10.9	145,979	25.7	28,433	5.0	332,394	58.4
Note: Figures for 2009 are provisional. Source: Achievement and Attainment Tables data.

Figures relate to pupils at the end of key stage 4 in maintained mainstream schools (includes academies and CTCs).

Volume 502: debated on Monday 7 December 2009