To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many secondary schools in England provided tuition in (1) Arabic in each year since 2007; (310093)

We do not have exact numbers of secondary schools offering tuition in Arabic and Mandarin. However, figures for the proportions of secondary schools offering tuition in Arabic and Mandarin in 2007 and 2008, based on a survey of a representative sample of schools, are in the following table. Research for 2009 will be published later this month by CILT, the National Centre for Languages.