CHIEF INSPECTOR OF SCHOOLS

Early day motion 1275A1, tabled 30 April 1998 by Gerry Steinberg (Labour). Signed by 16 members.

at end add 'particularly as his own annual report for 1996-97 states on page 15 that shortages in books and equipment affect teaching adversely in one in four secondary schools and one in 10 primary schools, and that in half of the schools recently inspected by OFSTED which had been judged to have inadequate resources, the vagaries of resource allocation meant that the school had not received sufficient funding to do the job it was expected to do, and on page 29 that "insufficient funding partly explained the unsatisfactory learning resources in one-third of the primary schools visited.".'.

Signatures by party: Labour 15, Labour/Co-operative 1.