§ Mr. StrawTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science when he intends to publish the annual report of Her Majesty's inspectors on local education authority provision for education and the quality of response in schools and colleges in England; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. Kenneth BakerI refer the hon. Member to the reply which I gave to my hon. Friend the Member for Hyndburn (Mr. Hargreaves) on 23 October 1987, at column907, and to the reply which my hon. Friend the Member for Mitcham and Morden (Mrs. Rumbold) gave to the hon. Member for Barnsley, West and Penistone (Mr. McKay) on 17 May at column 792. I hope to publish the next annual report in January 1989, which will cover the whole of the 1987–88 academic year rather than just one term.