Speeches

Mr Nick Gibb – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Education

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Mr Nick Gibb on 2014-03-26.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of education standards in primary schools in Surrey. [R]

Mr David Laws

In Surrey local authority, 89%, 85% and 86% of primary pupils achieved level 4 or above in the reading test, writing teacher assessment and mathematics test respectively. The performance of Surrey is higher than all schools nationally where 86%, 83% and 85% achieved level 4 or above in reading, writing and mathematics respectively.

This information is published in table 11 to 16 of the “National curriculum assessments at key stage 2: 2012 to 2013”[1] statistical first release. This is available in the “Local authority and regional tables: SFR51/2013” document. This document also contains information on pupil progress.

[1]https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-curriculum-assessments-at-key-stage-2-2012-to-2013