HC Deb 13 February 1996 vol 271 c530W
Mr. Blunkett

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what plans she has to use value added criteria in her proposed performance tables for 11-year-olds. [14482]

Mr. Robin Squire

I have asked the School Curriculum and Assessment Authority to report on the potential of different models of value added at key stages 2 and 4. It expects to do so by December 1996. The possibility of including value added measures in primary school tables, at some point, will be addressed in the light of that report.

Mr. Blunkett

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment when she will publish the performance tables for 11-year-olds in national assessment tests; in what format the information will be published; and if she will make a statement. [14481]

Mr. Squire

I intend to publish this summer's assessment results for 11-year-olds in school performance tables early in 1997. I shall consult in due course on the format of the tables.