Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many students were required to re-sit their (a) English and (b) mathematics GCSE exams in the latest academic year for which information is available.
The latest information available is for the academic year 2015/16 which is published in table 15a and 15b as part of the “A level and other 16-18 results: 2015 to 2016 (revised)” statistical first release (SFR).[1]
[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/a-level-and-other-16-to-18-results-2015-to-2016-revised (“English and Maths tables: SFR05/2017” document, table 15a and 15b)