Schools: Standards

Mr. Laws
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families when the independent evaluation of the Making Good Progress pilot will be published; and if he will make a statement.

Jim Knight
The Making Good Progress pilot is being externally evaluated by PricewaterhouseCoopers and a final evaluation report is due in the autumn of 2009. PricewaterhouseCoopers will also be publishing an interim report on the first year of the pilot later this year.