To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what is the total cost to public funds of the parents charter, listing separately costs to date for (a) preparation, (b) production, (c) launch, (d) all forms of distribution, (e) advertising and (f) total cost.

The costs of the parents charter, broken down as requested, are as follows: (a) preparation, £21,000; (b) production, £491,000; (c) launch, £36,500; (d) distribution, £696,000; (e) advertising, £713,000; (f) total cost, £1,957,500.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many copies of the parents charter have been printed.

Some 6·5 million copies of the parents charter have been printed. In addition, a total of 326,000 have been printed in eight ethnic minority languages.