HC Deb 16 June 1971 vol 819 cc112-3W
Dame Joan Vickers

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science with reference to Resolution No. 461 on European culture and education policy which was adopted by the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe on 22nd September, 1970, what action Her Majesty's Government have now taken on Recommendation 567 (1969) on Twenty Years of European Cultural Cooperation.

Mr. John E. B. Hill

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science with reference to Resolution No. 461 on European culture and education policy which was adopted by the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe on 22nd September, 1970, what action the Government has taken on Recommendation 567 (1969) on, Twenty years of European cultural co-operation.

Mrs. Thatcher

My hon. Friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State represented Britain last week at the Seventh Conference of European Ministers of Education in Brussels, when it was agreed to give the Conference a permanent character. This decision and its implications will be discussed at the Council for Cultural Co-operation next September and reported through the Committee of Ministers to the Consultative Assembly.