HC Deb 28 January 1991 vol 184 cc376-9W
Mrs. Currie

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will list the proportions of pupils gaining grades A to C in General Certificate of Secondary Education in (i) English, (ii) mathematics and (iii) a modern language in 1990, by rank order of education authority.

Mr. Fallon

Information for 1990 is not yet available. The table gives information for leavers from maintained schools, for each local education authority, aggregated over the three years 1987–89.

Modern foreign languages Mathematics English
Local education authority rank rank rank
Croydon 14.3 (50) 26.8 (66) 39.5 (41)
Ealing 11.1 (82) 27.0 (62) 32.1 (79)
Enfield 18.8 (16) 33.3 (19) 42.1 (27)
Haringey 10.8 (84) 19.3 (91) 29.9 (89)
Harrow 18.1 (18) 41.0 (3) 55.2 (1)
Havering 12.7 (68) 29.7 (46) 39.3 (42)
Hillingdon 12.0 (73) 31.6 (32) 37.8 (54)
Hounslow 15.7 (38) 30.4 (42) 40.3 (39)
Kingston upon Thames 20.8 (9) 32.6 (27) 50.3 (5)
Merton 17.6 (24) 30.1 (44) 38.3 (50)
Newham 9.0 (92) 18.9 (92) 29.0 (91)
Redbridge 13.8 (54) 30.1 (45) 38.2 (51)
Richmond upon Thames 23.2 (6) 36.0 (10) 44.3 (15)
Sutton 29.1 (1) 43.7 (2) 50.3 (6)
Waltham Forest 9.7 (90) 16.2 (95) 26.2 (93)
Birmingham 12.2 (70) 21.2 (84) 32.9 (77)
Coventry 11.5 (79) 25.1 (72) 34.8 (67)
Dudley 16.0 (35) 28.0 (55) 36.8 (63)
Sandwell 8.1 (93) 16.5 (94) 26.1 (94)
Solihull 20.5 (10) 34.6 (13) 45.8 (11)
Walsall 14.0 (53) 24.2 (76) 34.8 (68)
Wolverhampton 11.6 (75) 20.8 (86) 32.5 (78)
Knowsley 3.9 (96) 14.4 (96) 18.9 (96)
Liverpool 10.8 (83) 20.6 (88) 31.2 (84)
St. Helens 13.5 (59) 26.9 (64) 33.1 (76)
Sefton 16.3 (34) 29.4 (48) 43.3 (20)
Wirral 17.1 (27) 29.6 (47) 40.8 (38)
Bolton 16.7 (30) 33.3 (18) 43.0 (23)
Bury 14.4 (49) 35.3 (12) 43.1 (22)
Manchester 9.9 (89) 20.1 (89) 28.3 (92)
Oldham 13.3 (64) 22.2 (82) 29.0 (90)
Rochdale 10.5 (85) 25.1 (73) 34.7 (69)
Salford 12.2 (72) 24.7 (75) 37.7 (56)
Stockport 16.9 (29) 33.1 (24) 46.9 (8)
Tameside 14.4 (48) 30.7 (39) 41.1 (34)
Trafford 26.1 (3) 35.8 (11) 44.1 (16)
Wigan 19.2 (15) 33.1 (23) 40.9 (36)
Barnsley 10.3 (86) 23.3 (77) 30.5 (87)
Doncaster 11.2 (80) 26.8 (65) 31.7 (81)
Rotherham 14.7 (45) 25.7 (70) 34.4 (70)
Sheffield 13.7 (57) 25.0 (74) 37.6 (57)
Bradford 13.4 (61) 20.8 (85) 31.3 (83)
Calderdale 13.2 (65) 22.8 (78) 34.2 (71)
Kirklees 17.6 (25) 27.2 (60) 37.8 (53)
Leeds 14.5 (46) 25.2 (71) 34.0 (75)
Wakefield 11.5 (78) 22.3 (81) 31.3 (82)
Gateshead 10.1 (78) 22.1 (83) 30.4 (88)
Newcastle upon Tyne 12.2 (69) 20.7 (87) 31.8 (80)
North Tyneside 13.7 (56) 28.0 (54) 39.7 (40)
South Tyneside 12.9 (67) 27.9 (57) 34.2 (72)
Sunderland 9.7 (91) 22.4 (79) 31.0 (85)
Inner London Education Authority 10.1 (88) 20.1 (90) 30.8 (86)
Avon 15.6 (39) 30.2 (43) 42.1 (26)
Befordshire 14.2 (51) 27.9 (56) 39.0 (45)
Berkshire 21.3 (7) 36.3 (9) 44.4 (14)
Buckinghamshire 26.8 (2) 39.1 (5) 49.2 (7)
Cambridgeshire 20.2 (12) 30.8 (37) 41.2 (33)
Cheshire 17.8 (21) 30.6 (40) 41.6 (30)
Cleveland 13.6 (58) 29.2 (51) 36.5 (65)
Cornwall1 14.2 (52) 33.1 (21) 45.7 (13)
Cumbria 15.3 (41) 32.5 (29) 36.9 (62)
Derbyshire 13.4 (62) 28.8 (52) 36.9 (60)
Devon 13.3 (63) 29.3 (49) 39.2 (43)
Dorset 17.8 (22) 31.5 (33) 42.2 (25)
Durham 11.2 (81) 26.0 (69) 35.7 (66)
East Sussex 15.9 (36) 33.5 (17) 45.7 (12)
Essex 17.4 (26) 34.2 (14) 41.6 (28)
Gloucestershire 19.8 (13) 32.7 (26) 43.9 (17)
Hampshire 16.4 (32) 34.1 (15) 41.6 (29)
Hereford and Worcester 16.7 (31) 30.8 (36) 42.4 (24)
Hertfordshire 21.3 (8) 36.9 (7) 46.8 (9)
Humberside 13.8 (55) 26.7 (67) 34.1 (73)
Isle of Wight 7.2 (94) 22.3 (80) 34.0 (74)
Kent 18.0 (20) 32.5 (30) 41.0 (35)
Lancashire 15.9 (37) 30.5 (41) 38.3 (49)
Leicestershire 11.5 (77) 29.2 (50) 38.6 (47)
Lincolnshire 16.9 (28) 31.4 (34) 38.1 (52)

Modern foreign languages Mathematics English
Local education authority rank rank rank
Norfolk 13.4 (60) 32.5 (28) 37.8 (55)
North Yorkshire 23.8 (5) 36.6 (8) 45.9 (10)
Northamptonshire 11.6 (76) 26.5 (68) 36.9 (61)
Northumberland 15.1 (42) 32.8 (25) 41.6 (31)
Nottinghamshire 12.2 (71) 27.1 (61) 36.5 (64)
Oxfordshire 16.4 (33) 31.8 (31) 40.8 (37)
Shropshire 17.7 (23) 31.1 (35) 43.3 (21)
Somerset 15.5 (40) 30.7 (38) 38.5 (48)
Staffordshire 13.2 (66) 272 (59) 37.0 (59)
Suffolk 11.9 (74) 27.7 (58) 37.0 (58)
Surrey 19.8 (14) 39.6 (4) 52.9 (2)
Warwickshire 18.4 (17) 33.2 (20) 43.6 (19)
West Sussex 20.3 (11) 38.1 (6) 50.5 (3)
Wiltshire 14.8 (43) 28.7 (53) 38.7 (46)
ENGLAND 15.3 29.4 38.9
1 Includes the Isles of Scilly.