HC Deb 23 February 1981 vol 999 c264W
Sir Brandon Rhys Williams

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science when the first results will be published of the findings of the programme to monitor performance in the English language.

Dr. Boyson

The assessment of performance unit's report of the first survey of reading, writing and attitudes to reading of pupils aged 11 years, conducted in 1979, is due to be published in May. The results of a similar first survey in 1979 of pupils aged 15 years will be published in the autumn.