HC Deb 21 January 1997 vol 288 c544W
Mr. Blunkett

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment when she will make available the findings of the latest Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development study on adult literacy and numeracy skills. [11185]

Mr. Paice

[holding answer 20 January 1997]: The national report for the international adult literacy survey will be published as soon as possible after the Office for National Statistics receives the data from Statistics Canada, the body co-ordinating the survey, and checks and analyses have been carried out to ensure we are satisfied with the accuracy and quality of the figures. We expect this to be by the autumn of this year, which is in line with the time scale originally planned for this complex international survey.