Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of trends in the level of attainment of students at A Level in (a) Coventry North East constituency, (b) Coventry, (c) the West Midlands and (d) England in each of the last five years.

The Department publishes pupil attainment data through several headline measures for each local authority and region of England. These figures can be compared to the national (England) average for all pupils.

The headline measures for 16 to 18 study for each local authority and region in England for the academic years 2009/10 to 2018/19 are available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-attainment-at-19-years.

Due to A Level and AS Level reforms and changes to headline measures (including methodological changes), the available figures are only directly comparable between 2009/10 – 2014/15 and 2015/16 – 2018/19.

The last five years’ figures for A Level results for England, the West Midlands region, and Coventry Local Authority are summarised in the tables attached. Constituency level information is not published for 16 to 18 performance measures.