AQW 47600/11-15


Mr Peter Weir
Democratic Unionist Party
North Down


Tabled Date: 23/06/2015
Answered On Date: 06/07/2015
Priority Written: No


Question:
To ask the Minister of Education to detail the contracts awarded by each Education and Library Board between October 2014 and March 2015.


Revised Answer:
The data are not available in the format requested; the table below shows the number of schools with pupils who made GCSE and/or A-level examination entries in a specific modern language in the 2013/14 academic year.
Modern Language
Number of schools with 1 or more examination entry at A-level and/or GCSE
Irish
75
Dutch
2
French
165
German
45
Italian
5
Portuguese
10
Spanish
100
Arabic
8
Bengali
2
Chinese
16
Polish
59
Russian
10
Japanese
4
Turkish
1
Persian
3
Source: RM Education
Notes:
1. The above data do not include equivalent qualifications.
2. Schools can appear multiple times in the above table, against several modern languages.