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.