Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the (a) number and (b) proportion of A-level students at schools and colleges in Dudley North constituency that were in the top 20 per cent of attainers nationally in 2014.

There is no single indicator against which all school and colleges are assessed when comparing A level attainment. Therefore, information on the top 20% of attainers in Dudley North constituency has not been provided. Instead, several key indicators are given in the attached table alongside a national and Dudley local authority comparison for the 2013/14 academic year.

Local authority and national statistics are also published in the ‘A level and other level 3 results: 2013 to 2014 (revised)’ Statistical First Release.[1]

[1] www.gov.uk/government/statistics/a-level-and-other-level-3-results-2013-to-2014-revised (Table 12a)