History: GCSE

Nick Gibb Excerpts

Thursday 15th September 2011 Ministerial Corrections

[Chris Skidmore]

To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many mainstream comprehensive schools entered (a) no pupils, (b) fewer than five per cent. of pupils, (c) fewer than 10 per cent. of pupils and (d) fewer than 25 per cent. of pupils for GCSE history examinations in 2010.

[Official Report, 20 July 2011, Vol. 531, c. 1041W.]

Letter of correction from Nick Gibb:

An error has been identified in the written answer given to the hon. Member for Kingswood (Chris Skidmore) on 20 July 2011. While the total number of mainstream comprehensive schools identified was correct, the answers to the individual components were not. The answer was produced using a spreadsheet that contained a summary of results for each school. The spreadsheet contained results for some schools that were suppressed due to small numbers of entries; the suppressed schools were not included in the analysis in error. In revising this analysis we have taken into account the suppressed information to provide an accurate answer.

The full answer given was as follows:

[Mr Gibb]

2,734 schools have been identified as being mainstream comprehensive.

(a) All of these schools entered pupils for GCSE history

(b) 17 had fewer than 5% of pupils entered for GCSE history

(c) 139 had fewer than 10% entered for GCSE history

(d) 1,031 schools had fewer than 25% of pupils entered for GCSE history in 2010.

The correct answer should have been:

[Mr Gibb]

2,734 schools have been identified as being mainstream comprehensive.

(a) 63 of these schools entered no pupils for GCSE history

(b) 88 had fewer than 5% of pupils entered for GCSE history

(c) 210 had fewer than 10% entered for GCSE history

(d) 1,102 schools had fewer than 25% of pupils entered for GCSE history in 2010.