§ 6. Mr. Allan RobertsTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what steps are being taken to ensure that the supply of computers in primary schools will meet the demands of the national curriculum.
§ Mr. Alan HowarthLEAs are responsible for ensuring that schools have enough microcomputers to meet the requirements of the national curriculum. Under our education support grants programme some £25 million is being set aside over a three-year period beginning last year to assist LEAs to purchase microcomputers for educational use in schools. For 1990–91 the Department has asked the LEAs to give particular attention to the needs of primary schools.
§ 73. Mr. BellTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what steps he is taking to ensure that the supply of computers in primary schools will meet the demands of the national curriculum.
§ Mr. Alan HowarthI refer the hon. Member to the reply that I gave earlier today to the hon. Member for Bootle (Mr. Roberts) and the hon. Member for Motherwell, North (Dr. Reid).