Question to the Department for Education:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many A-level Maths entries there were between 2002 and 2009, and between 2010 and 2015.
Time series information on the number of A Level entries for the requested subjects in the years requested is published in the Statistical First Release “Provisional A level and other level 3 results in England: 2014 to 2015” and presented in the following table:
Number of A Level entries for the stated subject | ||||||
Year | Maths | Physics | English | French | German | Modern Foreign Languages[1] |
2002 | 44,156 | |||||
2003 | 44,453 | |||||
2004 | 46,017 | |||||
2005 | 46,034 | |||||
2006 | 49,805 | 23,657 | 78,147 | 12,190 | 5,534 | 28,010 |
2007 | 53,331 | 23,887 | 77,502 | 12,152 | 5,615 | 28,377 |
2008 | 57,618 | 24,703 | 80,917 | 12,605 | 5,560 | 29,423 |
2009 | 64,517 | 25,620 | 83,649 | 12,231 | 5,119 | 29,529 |
2010 | 69,803 | 27,786 | 84,037 | 12,324 | 5,055 | 29,855 |
2011 | 75,546 | 29,205 | 83,103 | 11,490 | 4,554 | 29,241 |
2012 | 78,077 | 30,749 | 82,825 | 10,871 | 4,208 | 28,375 |
2013 | 80,567 | 31,908 | 83,425 | 9,878 | 3,774 | 27,252 |
2014 | 79,036 | 32,226 | 78,215 | 9,078 | 3,716 | 26,477 |
2015[2] | 82,054 | 31,934 | 81,554 | 9,000 | 3,623 | 27,755 |
Source: 16-18 attainment data | ||||||
[1] Includes French, German, Spanish and other Modern Foreign Languages
[2] 2014/15 figures are based on provisional data. Figures for all other years are final.