asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what steps have been taken to meet the criticism in the Bullock Report, "A Language for Life", that there has been little sustained research on the comparative performance of children of minority groups in Great Britain.

The recommendations in the report on children from families of overseas origin are concerned with the improvement of their linguistic competence rather than the accumulation of evidence about their comparative performance. Since the report appeared the National Foundation for Educational Research has, however, published a comparative study entitled "Language Proficiency in the Multi-Racial Junior School".