Schools Census

HC Deb 17 March 1999 vol 327 cc679-80W

Mr. Swayne

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales when the results of the January 1999 schools' census will be published. [76212]

Mr. Hain

Schools Census results will be available later this year and will be published in "Statistics of Education and Training in Wales: Schools in 2000". Provisional results about class sizes will be published in a Statistical Release in the summer. The precise date of publication will be announced in the Office for National Statistics' monthly "National Statistics Update" in due course.

Following the transfer of functions, this issue will be a matter for the National Assembly.