§ Dr. StarkeyTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, pursuant to her answer of 2 July 2001,Official Report, column 36W, on community languages, if she will list those specialist language colleges which offer (a) Urdu, (b) Bengali, (c) Gujarati, (d) Hindi and (e) Chinese. [2356]
§ Mr. TimmsI understand that of the 99 specialist language colleges in operation as of September 2000, 46 offer one or more of the languages in question to an accredited level: Urdu (17), Bengali (10), Gujarati (7), Hindi (1) and Chine se (31). The names of the 46 schools are given in the following table.
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School LEA Urdu Bengali Gujarati Hindi Chinese 28 Montgomery high school Blackpool — — — — Yes 29 Moseley school Birmingham Yes Yes — — — 30 Northgate high school Suffolk — Yes — — — 31 Oulder Hill community school Rochdale Yes — — — — 32 Prince Henrys grammar school Leeds — — — — Yes 33 Queen Mary's high school Walsall Yes Yes Yes — — 34 Royal grammar school Buckinghamshire — — — — Yes 35 Shireland language school Sandwell Yes — — — Yes 36 Sir Thomas Rich's school Gloucestershire — — Yes — — 37 St. Edward's college Liverpool — — — — Yes 38 Tavistock college Devon — — — — Yes 39 The Harwich school Essex — — — — Yes 40 The Holy Family school Bradford Yes — — — — 41 The John Bentley school Wiltshire — — — — Yes 42 The Sir John Cass's Foundation and Rid Coat CE school Tower Hamlet Yes Yes — — Yes 43 Tile Hill Wood school Coventry Yes — — — — 44 William Ellis school London borough of Camden — Yes — — Yes 45 Wolverhampton Girls' high school Wolverhampton — — Yes — Yes 46 Woodbridge high school Redbridge Yes — — — Yes Total 17 10 7 1 31