To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if he will make a statement on recent developments in the arrangements for the European schools and the Government's policy towards them. (117605)

The international governing body of the European schools meets on 30-31 January 2007 to discuss, among other things, reports and recommendations on the future of the European schools system. The Government are committed to the future of the European schools and fulfil their treaty obligations under the 1994 convention defining the statute of the european schools.