§ Mr. SpearingTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what arrangements he made to ensure that the standards of testing by local authorities for seven-year-old readers was of a nationally consistent standard; and if he will state the names of any local authorities not sending in returns.
§ Mr. EggarThe teachers who carried out the reading tests used standard materials and marking schemes, and used books chosen from a national list.
Each local education authority was required to secure consistency between its assessment standards and national standards, and training was provided for LEA assessment staff.
Tower Hamlets and Lambeth LEAs did not submit their schools' returns by the due date.
§ Mr. SpearingTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will tabulate in respect of each local education authority making returns of their assessments tests for seven-year-old readers, the number of schools making or not making returns, respectively, and the appropriate number and percentage within each authority contributing to the test results.
§ Mr. EggarThe tables published by my right hon. and learned Friend on 19 December were based on the usable returns from the following percentages of maintained primary schools with seven-year-olds in each LEA.
579WThe tables excluded Tower Hamlets and Lambeth, as they had not submitted sufficient returns. Action has been taken to obtain this outstanding data.
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LEA ranking—proportion of returns from maintained schools with 7 year olds used to compile the 19 December LEA tables Percentage returns used Avon 100 Barking 100 Berkshire 100 Bexley 100 Bury 100 Cleveland 100 Coventry 100 Croydon 100 Enfield 100 Essex 100 Hackney 100 Hammersmith 100 Haringey 100 Havering 100 Kensington and Chelsea 100 Kingston upon Thames 100 Merton 100 Northamptonshire 100 Stockport 100 Sutton 100 Calderdale 99 Devon 99 Hereford and Worcester 99 Humberside 99 Lincolnshire 99 Sunderland 99 Tameside 99 Wakefield 99 Walsall 99 West Sussex 99 Bradford 98 Bromley 98 Cambridgeshire 98 Cornwall and Isles of Scilly 98 Dudley 98 North Yorkshire 98 Northumberland 98 Rotherham 98 Solihull 98 South Tyneside 98 Suffolk 98 Warwickshire 98 Newcastle upon Tyne 97 Wolverhampton 97 Westminster 97 Gateshead 97 Trafford 97 Wirral 97 Surrey 97 Manchester 96 Shropshire 96 Somerset 96 Redbridge 95 Sefton 95 Waltham Forest 95 Kent 94 St. Helens 94 Staffordshire 94 Barnet 94 Gloucestershire 93 Leeds 93 Rochdale 93 Wiltshire 93 Barnsley 92 Brent 92 Camden 92 Cheshire 92 Cumbria 92 Doncaster 92 Knowsley 92 Sandwell 92
Percentage returns used Durham 91 Harrow 91 Hertfordshire 91 Lancashire 91 Bedfordshire 90 Derbyshire 89 Isle of Wight 89 Lewisham 89 Oldham 89 Nottinghamshire 88 Richmond upon Thames 88 Wandsworth 88 Sheffield 87 Dorset 85 Hampshire 82 Leicestershire 81 Hillingdon 78 Ealing 77 Greenwich 75 Wigan 75 North Tyneside 73 Birmingham 72 Bolton 70 Oxfordshire 70 Liverpool 70 East Sussex 66 Islington 65 Kirklees 65 Salford 65 South wark 60 Buckinghamshire 59 Norfolk 59 Hounslow 58 Newham 55