HC Deb 06 May 1975 vol 891 c393W
19. Mr. Knox

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will take steps to establish standard criteria for determining literacy and numeracy.

Mr. Armstrong

One of the functions of the Department's Assessment of Per. formance Unit is to promote the development of methods of assessing and monitoring the achievement of school-children. These methods may in turn allow new criteria to be established for determining both literacy and numeracy.