§ Mr. Ashdownasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what progress has been made in the last year towards implementation of the recommendations of the Swann report relating to ethnically based statistics on school pupils and school teachers; when he expects to announce decisions; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mrs. RumboldAs my right hon. Friend announced on 25 July 1986 at column527, he has accepted the main recommendations of the Working Group on the collection of educational statistics on art ethnic basis, and in addition he proposed that information should be aggregated centrally by his Department. A draft of the circular implementing the arrangements is in preparation and will be issued for consultation.
My right hon. Friend expects to receive shortly the report of the working group on the collection of ethnically-based statistics on school-teachers, which was established in January 1986. He will then announce his response to this report.