To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science (1) pursuant to his answer of 16 January to the hon. Member for Newham, South (Mr. Spearing). Official Report, columns 580-82, if he will list the reasons why some of the returns of assessment tests for seven-year-old readers submitted by local education authorities were not usable;(2) if he will state for each local education authority the percentage of their assessment tests for seven-year-old readers which they submitted to his Department.

Certain returns could not be used because they were incomplete or wrongly completed. Those returns were referred back to the LEA concerned. Any corrected results which were returned in time for publication and were usable, were included in the report published on 19 December. The table gives the percentage of returns of the test results for seven-year-olds received for each local education authority. Both usable and unusable returns are included.