§ Mr. Peter Bruinvelsasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what data were available to Her Majesty's inspectorate on the basis of which it reported, in paragraph 7 of its report on the effects of local authority expenditure policies on education provision in England in 1984, a statistically significant association between certain levels of resource provision and certain qualities of work; 164W encourage good practice in English language and mother tongue teaching; an HMI conference on the teaching of mother tongues is being held for chief education officers and others in September.
Much remains to be done, but I believe that a worthwhile start has been made.