§ Sir Thomas ArnoldTo ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to his answer of 20 May, Official Report, columns 158–59, whether the figure of 5.5 million functionally illiterate pupils includes those people who are literate in another language but functionally illiterate in English.
§ Mr. FormanNo. The adult literacy and basic skills unit estimates that an additional 500,000 adults in England and Wales whose first language is not English are "functionally illiterate" in English.