§ Mrs. BrowningTo ask the Secretary of State for Education when he expects the findings of the current national survey of local education authority discretionary award provision to be published.
§ Mr. BoswellThis survey was commissioned by the Calouste Gulbenkian and Sir John Cass Foundations, with the support of my Department and the Further Education Funding Council, and is being conducted by the National Foundation for Educational Research. Accordingly, publication of the survey's findings is not in the Government's hands. I understand that by the middle of November only half of the local education authorities in England and Wales had been able to return the second of the two questionnaires sent to them in May. I very much hope that the remaining authorities will be able to make their returns by the end of December. The survey's steering committee, on which my Department is represented, now expects the findings to be published as a Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation document at the end of March.