HC Deb 17 March 1997 vol 292 cc442-3W
Mr. Flynn

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales for what reasons he has not published the league tables for Welsh primary schools. [20545]

Mr. Jonathan Evans

Teacher union action disrupted the assessments in Wales during 1995; data collection and validation arrangements were then subject to comprehensive test in 1996. Extensive information on key stage 2 results, by local authority area, was published on 24 February. Now that the assessment arrangements are firmly established, performance tables giving key stage 2 results by named schools will be published after this year's round.