HC Deb 16 February 1988 vol 127 c574W
20. Mr. Michael McNair-Wilson

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what discussions he has had with Church leaders and representatives of the teaching profession about improving the teaching of religious instruction.

Mrs. Rumbold

Since publication of the Government's proposals for a national curriculum my right hon. Friend and I have had meetings with representatives of the Church of England Board of Education, the Roman Catholic Bishops' Conference, the Religious Education Council, and with the Bishop of Newcastle. Discussion at all these meetings covered religious instruction in schools.