To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what advice is given to nursery, infant, primary and secondary schools concerning asthma sufferers and the proximity of schools and school playgrounds to major roads.

Medical paediatric advice is available to schools and to LEAs from the district health authorities' community child health service. Individual children with asthma may be seen with their parents when advice may be given to the child and family, the teacher and the school with regard to management in a particular case.The child's general medical practitioner who has responsibility for his or her medical care, or the hospital paediatrician in more severe cases, may also give advice not only to the child and family but to the teacher and school.The proximity of a school and the school playground to major roads would be for local consideration by the school and the school doctor according to the state of health and asthma of an individual child or group of children.