HC Deb 28 February 2000 vol 345 c145W
Miss McIntosh

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment (1) what recent representations he has received regarding class sizes in primary schools; [111380]

(2) if he will make a statement on average class sizes in primary schools. [111407]

Ms Estelle Morris

My Department receives representations from time to time about primary class sizes. The average size of primary classes went down from 27.7 in January 1998 to 27.4 in January 1999—the first fall in ten years.