Question to the Department for Education:

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many GCSE entrants there were in (1) art, (2) music, (3) dance, and (4) drama, in (a) the 2010, and (b) the 2020, academic years.

This information is not yet available for 2019/20. It will become available once we release our provisional publication between December and January 2021 at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/announcements/entries-for-gcse-november-2020-exam-series.

The number of pupils in all schools in England at the end of key stage 4 who entered music, art, drama or dance at GCSE level (including equivalents) is published each year (including 2010 onwards) in the ‘subject time series data’ table at the following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/key-stage-4-performance-2019-revised.