Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what information he holds on the (a) number of pupils in each ethnic group who have taken subjects in the English Baccalaureate and (b) grades that those pupils have achieved since the introduction of that qualification.

The number and percentage of pupils, split by ethnicity, entering and achieving the English Baccalaureate (EBacc) in each of the last seven years is provided in the attached table. The Department did not publish EBacc entries and achievements, split by pupil characteristics, in the period 2009 to 2010.