HC Deb 11 December 1997 vol 302 c654W
24. Mr. Hammond

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many responses he has received to the consultation document, "Excellence in schools". [18773]

Mr. Byers

We have received around 8,500 responses to the White Paper. Some 3,500 were responses to the full document and the remainder were responses to the summary version.