Gcse
Children, Schools and Families
Written answers and statements, 26 October 2009

Graham Brady (Altrincham & Sale West, Conservative)
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what percentage of pupils who had participated in gifted and talented programmes and who sat GCSEs in 2009 achieved (a) five or more GCSEs at grades A* - C, (b) five or more GCSEs at grades A* - C including English and mathematics, (c) five or more GCSEs at grades A* - C including English, mathematics and a modern foreign language and (d) eight or more GCSEs at grades A* - A.

Vernon Coaker (Minister of State (Schools and Learners), Department for Children, Schools and Families; Gedling, Labour)
holding answer
Information on GCSE attainment by pupil characteristics for the 2008-09 academic year is not yet available. The first results from this data will be published in December 2009.
