HC Deb 17 March 2004 vol 419 c298W
Lady Hermon

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will list the(a) meetings and (b) discussions he has with (i) school principals and (ii) other interested parties since the publication of the Costello Report. [161286]

Jane Kennedy

Since the publication of the Costello Report, I have met with representatives of the UUP, DUP, SDLP, Sinn Fein, the Alliance Party and the Governing Bodies Association. I have received a request for a meeting with representatives of the Catholic Bishops of Northern Ireland and I hope to meet with them in the very near future. Officials have been involved in discussions with members of the Association of Head Teachers in Secondary Schools and with post-primary school principals in the Belfast and Southern Education and Library Boards and shortly with those in the South Eastern Education and Library Board.