§ 6. Mr. Woodburnasked the Minister of Education what steps he has taken to establish a Commonwealth information centre in London on the teaching of English as a second language as recommended by the Report of the Second Commonwealth Education Conference hi 1958; and whether he will consider combining this project with the establishment of an academy of language to guide the development, teaching and use of English as a world common language.
§ Sir E. BoyleThe recommendation of the Second Commonwealth Education Conference in 1962 that there should be a Commonwealth English language information centre was referred to the Commonwealth Education Liaison Committee. The Committee took note that the British Council had recently established in London an English teaching information centre which served a similar purpose and decided not to pro-130W ceed at that stage with a separate Commonwealth centre. I am sending the right hon. Member a leaflet about the British Council's centre. Any expansion of its functions is, in the first instance, for the British Council to consider, but I doubt whether it would be easy for a body set up by any one nation to attempt to guide the development and use of the English language.