HC Deb 20 March 1978 vol 946 c427W
Mr. Raison

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science, pursuant to her reply to the hon. Member for Aylesbury on 14th March, what would be her estimate of the length of time before the decline in standards in mathematics, in Buckinghamshire Schools, she expects to follow comprehensivisation, will lead to the standards in those school falling to the level in other activities tested by the Institute of Mathematics where comprehensive education is already in being.

Miss Margaret Jackson

My right hon. Friend does not expect a decline in education standards to follow comprehensive reorganisation.