§ Mr. Chapmanasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will make a statement about the publication of public examination results by secondary schools.
§ Mr. Mark CarlisleI propose to make regulations which will have the effect of requiring that each maintained secondary school will provide annually details of the most recent available graded results obtained by pupils in GCE and CSE examinations, and will show the number of pupils in the relevant forms or age group. In the light of comments on the proposals in my Department's consultative paper, I have decided that the publication of the numbers of entries or candidates will not be required and that the information for each school will need to be available only from that school.