Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor John Butcher (Conservative), on Wednesday, 19 March 1997, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 2 members in total.

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SCHOOL CHILDREN AND COMPUTERS

That this House urges the Department for Education and Employment not to permit a schoolchild to use computers until the child has attained a reading age of nine and has learnt how to add, subtract, multiply and divide at which point each child should be introduced to Information Technology and computing as a powerful tool to support learning.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

704 

Session

1996-97

Subjects

Computers Pupils

Link

View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk