HC Deb 20 February 1989 vol 147 c513W
Mr. Cartwright

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science (1) what advice he is giving to local education authorities about the teaching of classics in secondary schools;

(2) what representations he has received about the absence of classics from the national curriculum foundation subjects in secondary schools.

Mrs. Rumbold

I refer the hon. Member to the reply that I gave to my hon. Friend, the Member for Basingstoke (Mr. Hunter) on 31 January at columns171–72. My right hon. Friend has received a large number of representations from organisations, parents and teachers about the place of classics in the school curriculum.