Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of children designated as in need achieved (a) five A* to C grades at GCSE including English and mathematics and (b) no A* to C grades at GCSE excluding equivalents in (i) Coventry and (ii) the West Midlands from 2008 to the most recent year for which figures are available.

Information on the number and proportion of children designated as in need that achieved five A* to C grades at GCSE including English and mathematics is published within the additional tables of the Characteristics of children in need statistical releases: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-children-in-need.

Figures are provided at local authority level in table L5 of the additional (or outcomes) tables for the years 2012 to 2016. Data for earlier years is not available. Information for the latest year (2017) is not available because of the changes to the secondary accountability framework.

Information on the number and proportion of children designated as in need that achieved no A* to C grades at GCSE excluding equivalents is not available and could only be produced at disproportionate cost.