HC Deb 21 November 1977 vol 939 cc505-6W
Mr. Wigley

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if she will state the circumstances, if any, in which information on individual schoolchildren, prepared by teachers at their primary or secondary schools, is stored on a centralised computer facility.

Miss Margaret Jackson

The only records my Department holds on indivi- dual schoolchildren are those made by schools in England and Wales for the school leavers survey, the results of which are published in Volume 2 of the annual series "Statistics of Education". This survey concerns entries made in and the results of GCE and CSE examinations and, if known, the leavers destination, and is based on a 10 per cent. sample of children leaving school in the preceding academic year.