§ Mr. Squireasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will raise the position of Esperanto and its teaching at the forthcoming meeting of the European Ministers examining the problems of foreign language teaching; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. DunnNo. My right hon. Friend is not persuaded that there is a case at the national level for encouraging schools to teach Esperanto, although it is open to individual schools to make provision for Esperanto if they so wish.