To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what plans he has to provide non-teaching time for teachers in (a) primary schools and (b) secondary schools to enable them to implement (i) the teaching, testing and assessment provisions of the national curriculum and (ii) the proposals of the Elton report on discipline in schools.

The use of teachers' directed time, and in particular its division between teaching and non-teaching duties, is a matter for head teachers to decide.