GCE A-level: Languages Mr. MacShane To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many pupils took A-levels in (a) French, (b) German, (c) Italian, (d) Spanish and (e) Russian in each year since 2000. Jim Knight The figures requested are in the following table. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | |French|German|Italian|Spanish|Russian| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |2000 |15,240|7,581 |585 |4,516 |490 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |2001 |15,393|7,607 |565 |4,501 |442 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |2002 |13,599|6,367 |582 |4,430 |415 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |2003 |12,904|6,068 |531 |4,504 |485 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |2004 |12,480|5,643 |516 |4,650 |451 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |2005 |11,963|5,238 |508 |4,930 |547 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |2006 |12,190|5,534 |577 |5,202 |522 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |1 Age at start of academic year (at previous 31 August).| | | | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------