HC Deb 18 November 1971 vol 826 cc618-9
14. Mr. J. E. B. Hill

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what recommendations or advice she has received from the Tizard Advisory Committee on handicapped children.

Mrs. Thatcher

This year the Committee has submitted reports on research and on a question I referred to it concerning dyslexia. I have approved its recommended programme of research into various aspects of special education down to 1978, which will be financed by my Department at a total cost of £316,000. The Committee's report on dyslexia was submitted to me very recently, and I am considering it.

Mr. Hill

To what extent will the reports be published? Is it within the Committee's remit to consider the important problem of how handicapped children should, where possible, be better enabled to be educated in ordinary schools along with their fellows?

Mrs. Thatcher

That will be one of its tasks. The report on dyslexia will be published. The Committee has let me know that it will have no objection to its being published.