§ 43. Mr. RiddickTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many local education authorities currently implement anti-racist policies in their schools; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. ButcherInformation about how many local education authorities currently implement anti-racist policies in their schools is not collected centrally. It is Government policy that ethnic minority pupils should have the same opportunity as all others to profit from what schools can offer them and that schools should preserve and transmit our national values in a way which accepts Britain's ethnic diversity and promotes tolerance and racial harmony. It is for individual local education authorities and schools to determine, in the light of their own needs and circumstances, how to give effect to this policy.