asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many children now leave school without being taught a foreign language; and what measures she plans to encourage greater emphasis on foreign languages in secondary and primary schools.

Local education authorities do not make statistical returns on the number of pupils who have been taught particular subjects. The balance of the curriculum, both at primary and secondary level, will be one of the subjects for discussion in the national debate referred to by my right hon. Friend in answer to a Question by the hon. Member for Conway (Mr. Roberts) on 26th October. —[Vol. 918, c. 107.]