§ Mr. GibbTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if he will make a statement on the position in which the United Kingdom came in the OECD PISA 2001 survey in mathematics. [97001]
§ Mr. Charles ClarkeThe performance of young people from the United Kingdom in the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2000, published in December 2001, was encouraging. Out of the 32 countries participating in the study, the United Kingdom came eighth on the mathematical literacy scale and was only significantly outperformed by Japan and Korea.