§ Mr. Fatchett; To ask the Secretary of State for Education if he will set out the percentage of seven-year-olds in the 1991 standard assessment tasks who reached (a) level 3, (b) level 2, (c) level 1 in attainment target 2 of English—reading—and (d) the percentage of children who failed to reach level 1.
§ Mr. ForthAs indicated in "Testing 7 year olds in 1991: results of the National Curriculum assessments in England", copies of which are in the Library of the House, the percentages of seven-year-olds reaching the different levels in the reading component of English in the 1991 tests for seven-year-olds were as follows:
Per cent. Level 3 21 Level 2 50 Level 1 26 Working towards level 1 2 Disapplied/not tested 1