§ Mrs. CurrieTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will list, by county education authority in England, in rank order, the percentage of all pupils gaining a higher grade GCSE pass A to C in(a) a modern European language, (b) mathematics and (c) English, in 1989.
§ Mrs. RumboldInformation for 1989 is not yet available. The table gives information for school leavers, for county and metropolitan local education authorities, aggregated over the three years 1986–88 to reduce sampling error.
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Percentage of all leavers with grades A-C at GCSE/'O' level/CSE Local education authority Modern foreign language Rank Mathematics Rank English Rank Wolverhampton 10.9 (72) 19.8 (85) 29.7 (84) Knowsley 3.7 (96) 15.8 (95) 20.5 (96) Liverpool 10.5 (76) 20.1 (83) 30.0 (82) St. Helens 14.0 (40) 29.5 (41) 33.2 (71) Sefton 14.5 (36) 27.9 (52) 42.6 (19) Wirral 15.3 (30) 28.8 (45) 39.8 (34) Bolton 15.5 (28) 30.6 (30) 40.7 (28) Bury 13.1 (50) 35.9 (7) 42.8 (17) Manchester 9.3 (86) 19.7 (88) 27.1 (91) Oldham 10.9 (73) 20.7 (81) 25.7 (92) Rochdale 10.0 (80) 23.6 (74) 35.5 (56) Salford 11.2 (71) 25.3 (67) 34.6 (62) Stockport 13.7 (45) 31.2 (25) 44.4 (11) Tameside 13.0 (51) 29.6 (40) 39.6 (36) Trafford 24.2 (3) 36.4 (6) 45.5 (9) Wigan 18.1 (16) 34.2 (12) 42.0 (22) Barnsley 8.1 (90) 19.9 (84) 28.4 (88) Doncaster 9.7 (82) 25.6 (65) 29.5 (86) Rotherham 12.7 (58) 23.8 (73) 30.7 (77) Sheffield 12.6 (61) 25.2 (68) 35.4 (58) Bradford 11.8 (64) 19.8 (86) 29.6 (85) Calderdale 12.2 (62) 22.0 (77) 33.9 (67) Kirklees 16.3 (25) 27.3 (56) 36.1 (52) Leeds 13.4 (49) 25.8 (64) 34.1 (65) Wakefield 10.5 (77) 24.4 (71) 29.8 (83) Gateshead 8.3 (89) 21.3 (79) 28.3 (89) Newcastle upon Tyne 10.3 (78) 17.5 (93) 28.0 (90) North Tyneside 12.0 (63) 26.8 (59) 35.9 (53) South Tyneside 8.8 (88) 23.3 (75) 30.6 (78) Sunderland 7.8 (92) 19.7 (87) 30.0 (81) Inner London 9.7 (83) 20.5 (82) 30.1 (80) Avon 13.7 (43) 28.5 (49) 40.1 (33) Bedfordshire 13.9 (41) 28.8 (46) 38.9 (40) Berkshire 19.7 (9) 33.3 (14) 41.0 (25) Buckinghamshire 23.5 (4) 37.3 (5) 47.8 (5) Cambridgeshire 17.6 (17) 29.4 (43) 40.1 (31) Cheshire 16.3 (24) 30.9 (29) 40.6 (29) Cleveland 12.9 (54) 30.1 (34) 35.2 (59) Cornwall1 13.5 (48) 31.3 (24) 43.2 (16) Cumbria 13.6 (47) 32.3 (19) 37.6 (45) Derbyshire 11.5 (67) 27.9 (51) 34.1 (64) Devon 12.7 (57) 27.9 (53) 38.9 (39) Dorset 16.5 (23) 31.2 (26) 43.9 (14) Durham 10.1 (79) 24.7 (69) 33.4 (70) East Sussex 13.8 (42) 29.4 (44) 41.7 (23) Essex 16.2 (26) 32.3 (20) 40.2 (30) Gloucestershire 18.4 (14) 31.3 (23) 43.5 (15) Hampshire 15.2 (31) 32.5 (18) 41.0 (24) Hereford and Worcester 15.4 (29) 29.9 (39) 42.0 (21) Hertfordshire 19.5 (10) 34.9 (11) 45.3 (10) Humberside 12.9 (52) 25.9 (63) 34.1 (66) Isle of Wight 6.2 (94) 19.4 (90) 31.5 (76) Kent 17.3 (18) 31.6 (22) 39.4 (37) Lancashire 15.2 (33) 30.2 (33) 38.3 (43) Leicestershire 9.4 (85) 27.6 (54) 35.5 (55) Lincolnshire 16.2 (27) 30.5 (31) 37.6 (46) Norfolk 12.7 (59) 30.0 (36) 35.8 (54) North Yorkshire 22.5 (5) 35.2 (8) 44.0 (13) Northamptonshire 10.8 (74) 26.2 (62) 36.1 (51) Northumberland 15.0 (34) 31.8 (21) 42.3 (20) Nottinghamshire 10.7 (75) 25.5 (66) 32.9 (72) Oxfordshire 14.5 (37) 30.2 (32) 38.9 (38) Shropshire 16.6 (20) 29.5 (42) 39.6 (35) Somerset 13.7 (46) 27.4 (55) 37.3 (48) Staffordshire 12.6 (60) 26.5 (61) 34.8 (61) Suffolk 11.4 (69) 26.5 (60) 37.9 (44) Surrey 19.3 (11) 39.1 (4) 51.4 (3) Warwickshire 16.7 (19) 31.2 (28) 40.7 (27) West Sussex 18.9 (13) 35.1 (9) 47.4 (6) Wiltshire 13.7 (44) 27.2 (57) 36.9 (50) Total England 14.1 — 28.4 — 37.5 — 1 Including Isles of Scilly.
§ Mrs. CurrieTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will list in rank order the percentage of all pupils gaining five or more higher grades A to C at GCSE in 1989, by county education authority in England.
§ Mrs. RumboldInformation for 1989 is not yet available. For the latest available information I refer my hon. Friend to the reply that I gave to my hon. Friend the Member for Pembroke (Mr. Nicholas Bennett) on 18 January 1990,Official Report, column 333.