§ Ms. ArmstrongTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what has been(a) the total number and (b) the proportion of three and four-year-olds in (i) nursery schools, (ii) nursery classes, and (iii) primary classes for each year since 1958.
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Number of pupils aged 3 and 4 (thousands) Percentage of the estimated population aged 3 and 4 January each year Nursery schools Nursery classes Infant classes Nursery schools Nursery classes Infant classes 1980 40.6 150.2 213.3 3.7 13.8 19.6 1981 40.1 154.5 206.4 3.8 14.5 19.4 1982 40.5 165.6 201.2 3.8 15.4 18.7 1983 42.2 179.4 210.2 3.7 15.7 18.4 1984 42.2 191.4 236.3 3.5 16.0 19.7 1985 42.6 199.8 245.5 3.6 16.7 20.5 1986 42.2 204.7 235.9 3.6 17.3 20.0 showing the proportion of pupils who remain in full-time education after it has ceased to be compulsory, broken down by each local education authority area, by sex, by ages 16, 17, and 18 years, by type of school or college, maintained school, further education college, private school, and so on, for the latest available year and for each of the preceding 10 years, together with aggregate totals.
§ Mr. Kenneth BakerThe following table sets out the percentage of 16 to 18 age groups staying on in full-time education and on YTS in 1975, 1987 and 1988.
Disaggregated information in respect of individual local education authorities will be published in a statistical bulletin early in the new year.
§ Mr. ButcherThe total number and proportion of three and four-year-olds in maintained nursery schools and nursery classes and infant classes in primary schools in England each year since 1980 was as follows:
Comparable information prior to 1980 is not available.
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Number of pupils aged 3 and 4 (thousands) Percentage of the estimated population aged 3 and 4 January each year Nursery schools Nursery classes Infant classes Nursery schools Nursery classes Infant classes 1987 42.8 208.4 240.4 3.6 17.7 20.4 1988 42.5 214.7 248.2 3.6 18.0 20.9