HC Deb 24 February 1993 vol 219 c614W
Mr. Godsiff

To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many pupils of key stage 3 age were involved in the pilot studies conducted by the University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate for key stage 3 English on which the proposed tests for 1993 are based.

Mr. Forth

The University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate conducted pilot tests in November 1992 and January this year. Three thousand pupils were involved in the first pilot and 2,700 in the second.