HC Deb 08 July 1999 vol 334 c630W
22. Mr. Derek Twigg

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what provisions there are in the National Curriculum to ensure the teaching of literacy in primary schools. [88988]

Mr. Charles Clarke

Our proposals for the revised National Curriculum are fully aligned with the objectives in the National Literacy Strategy "Framework for Teaching", which primary schools have been teaching in the daily Literacy Hour since September 1998.