§ Dr. Roger Thomasasked the Secretary of State for Wales, in view of the evidence published in Mathematical Development: Secondary Survey Report No. 1 on the basic mathematical skills of 15-year-olds that in the Principality have attained the lowest mean scores of any region within the United Kingdom, if he will take action to remedy this position.
§ Mr. Michael RobertsIt is primarily for local education authorities and schools to ensure that their provision for mathematical teaching is adequate. The Mathematical Development: Secondary Survey Report No. 1 records the results of the first of a series of surveys to be carried out by the Assessment of Performance Unit and it would be wrong to draw firm conclusions from it.