Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of Key Stage Four students are studying a foreign language.

The percentage of pupils[1] at the end of Key Stage 4 entering a modern foreign language[2] in state-funded schools[3] in England is 46.7% for 2018/19.

[1] Includes attempts and achievements by these pupils in previous academic years.

[2] For Key Stage 4 entries are those counted as part of the language element in the English Baccalaureate.

[3] State-funded schools include academies, free schools, city technology colleges, further education colleges with provision for 14 to 16 year-olds and state-funded special schools. They exclude independent schools, independent special schools, non-maintained special schools, pupil referral units and alternative provision. Alternative provision includes academy and free school alternative provision.