HC Deb 09 July 1990 vol 176 c80W
Mr. Worthington

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what special initiatives his Department has taken to support International Literacy Year.

Mr. Lang

None. The Department does, however, provide resources to the Scottish Community Education Council to co-ordinate and develop provisions in adult literacy in Scotland and, in 1989, for the first time, funds were made available to voluntary organisations towards new development projects concerned with adult basic education.