§ Mr. Freudasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will publicise his Department's functional definitions of the terms "literate" and "illiterate" in order to help introduce uniformity in current usage.
§ Mr. ArmstrongThe Bullock Report suggests that a new system to monitor reading and writing standards would establish fresh criteria for the definition of literacy. I do not propose to prejudge any of these issues by going beyond what the Report already records about my Department's definition.