To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many local education authorities submitted results for the pupils with special educational needs with their returns of assessment tests for seven-year-old readers; and whether these were used in the compilation of the tables published on 19 December 1991.

Returns from special schools were not included in the results published on 19 December. However, many LEAs included the results of pupils with special educational needs on roll in mainstream schools in their returns. It is not, however, possible to identify these pupils and hence the LEAs concerned.