HC Deb 06 March 1997 vol 291 cc705-6W
Mr. Allen

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what representations she has made to the other Departments since 26 February on the drug abuse resistance education scheme. [18956]

Mrs. Gillan

I wrote on Monday 3 March to my hon. Friend the Member for Bolton, West (Mr. Sackville) Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department to bring his attention to the debate on DARE of 26 February,Official Report, column 397–410. I copied my letter to my right hon. Friend the Lord President.

Mr. Allen

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if she will study the evaluation of DARE by North Nottinghamshire Health Promotion. [18957]

Mrs. Gillan

My right hon. Friend would welcome the opportunity to do so.

Mr. Allen

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if she will call for a report from the Nottinghamshire county council on its secondary school booster scheme for DARE. [18959]

Mrs. Gillan

My right hon. Friend has no plans to do so. Any information Nottinghamshire county council chooses to offer the Department will be received with interest.

Mr. Allen

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what action she has taken to extend the DARE scheme. [18954]

Mrs. Gillan

Decisions on approaches to drug education remain a matter for individual schools.

Mr. Allen

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, pursuant to the oral statement of the Lord President of the Council on 26 February,Official Report, columns 401–2, what is her response to the questions raised by the hon. Member for Nottingham, North regarding the DARE scheme. [18960]

Mrs. Gillan

I sought to set out my right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State's response to those questions during the debate. Broadly, while my right hon. Friend remains interested in the progress of the DARE programme in Nottinghamshire, she does not intend to promote or endorse one particular approach to drug education in schools above the many others that are serving our teachers and young people well in their particular circumstances.

Mr. Allen

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if she will write to the hon. Member for Nottingham, North giving her view on the Office for Standards in Education report on drug education. [18958]

Mrs. Gillan

Yes.