Two interim reports on Breaking the Cycle, urban and rural, have been forwarded to my Department by the Educational Research Centre. These reports identify baseline data against which future developments and attainments in the project will be evaluated. The final evaluation is being carried out by the Educational Research Centre and a report on the five year project will be submitted to the Department at the end of 2001. Further testing in reading and mathematics will be carried out in 2003 and a survey of the social, economic and education activity of 16 year olds who have attended the Breaking the Cycle schools will be undertaken in 2008.