§ Mr. CousinsTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will publish a table of local education authorities whose attainment test results at seven years were published showing in each case(a) those who included all seven-year-olds in the tests, (b) those who excluded special needs pupils, (c) those who excluded statemented or excluded pupils, (d) those who excluded pupils with a mother tongue other than English, (e) those who excluded other categories of pupil with an indication of which other category was so excluded and (f) those who made no return of which categories of pupil were excluded.
§ Mr. EggarWith the exception of pupils with statements of special educational needs, and some others temporarily excepted from the provisions of the national curriculum under section 19 of the Education Reform Act, all pupils coming to the end of key stage 1 of the national curriculum were required to be tested in the core subjects last summer.
Some LEAs and schools chose to include pupils with statements of special educational needs in the tests. The reply which I gave to the hon. Member for the City of Durham (Mr. Steinberg) on 10 February, Official Report, column 374, explains how the LEA results published on 19 December treated such pupils.