Question to the Department for Education:

To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Agnew of Oulton on 2 November (HL2292), which schools have participated in the Mandarin Excellence Programme so far and which of them are state schools and which are private.

The schools listed below have participated in the Mandarin Excellence Programme so far. They are all state schools.

Year one 2016/17:

Alexandra Park School, London

Anglo European School, Ingateston

Beths Grammar School, Bexley

Bohunt School, Liphook

Dartford Grammar School, Dartford

Finham Park School, Coventry

Fortismere School, London

Gumley House Convent School, Isleworth

Homewood School & Sixth Form Centre, Tenterden

Kingsford Community School, London

Queen Mary's Grammar School, Walsall

St Joseph's College, London

St Mary Magdalene Academy, London

Upton Hall School FCJ, Upton, Wirral

Year two 2017/18:

All Hallows Catholic College, Macclesfield

Bay House School, Gosport

Bohunt Worthing, Worthing

Christ’s College Finchley, London

Christopher Whitehead Language College & Sixth Form, Worcester

Cowley International College, Saint Helens

Didcot Girls' School, Didcot

Evelyn Grace Academy, London

Finham Park 2, Coventry

Highdown School and Sixth Form Centre, Reading

Hove Park, Hove

Ingleby Manor Free School & Sixth Form, Stockton-on-Tees

Lambeth Academy, London

Lyng Hall, Coventry

Mayfield Grammar School, Kent

Melbourn Village College, Cambridge

Queen Mary’s High School, Walsall

Shevington High School, Wigan

St Catherine’s College, Eastbourne

St Gregory's, Bath

The Crossley Heath School, Halifax

Wilmington Grammar School for Girls, Wilmington

UCL Academy, London