Question follow-through · 3691
GCE A-level: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment she has made of trends in the levels of A Level results by county; and what steps she is planning to take to improve standards in areas with lower attainment.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 2 Sept 2024
- Target answer date
- 4 Sept 2024
- Answer
- 19 Sept 2024 · 17 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
2 Sept 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment she has made of trends in the levels of A Level results by county; and what steps she is planning to take to improve standards in areas with lower attainment.
4 Sept 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Sept 2024
Answer published
Data on local authority attainment at A level is published in the ‘A level and other 16 to 18 results’ statistical release. The latest data relates to the 2022/23 academic year and data for the 2023/24 academic year will be published in November 2024. For...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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