Commonwealth Immigrant Children

HC Deb 05 December 1968 vol 774 cc536-8W

Mr. Lomas

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will show, in table form, those boroughs or county boroughs with a population of 50,000 or more where the number of Commonwealth immigrant children exceed 2 per cent. of all pupils in maintained primary and secondary schools; and if he will differentiate between the two types of schools at the latest available date.

Miss Bacon

The figures for county boroughs and inner and outer London boroughs are as follows. Information for the other boroughs is not readily available.

BOROUGHS WITH A POPULATION OF 50,000 OR MORE, WHERE IMMIGRANT PUPILS EXCEED TWO PER CENT. OF ALL PUPILS IN MAINTAINED PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS
January, 1968
	Primary Schools	Secondary Schools	Percentage
Inner London Boroughs
Hammersmith	18.7	12.5	16.2
Kensington and Chelsea	18.7	16.8	17.9
Camden	19.2	15.4	17.5
Westminster	20.6	12.4	17.0
Islington	25.5	20.0	23.4
Hackney	26.2	19.6	23.6
Tower Hamlets and City of London	10.7	7.1	9.3
Greenwich	4.4	3.9	4.2
Lewisham	14.8	8.5	12.3
Southwark	13.7	11.3	12.7
Lambeth	22.0	16.4	19.9
Wandsworth	17.6	12.0	15.1
Outer London Boroughs
Barnet	7.6	4.8	6.4
Brent	27.2	21.4	25.1
Bromley	2.0	2.0	2.0
Croydon	7.9	6.6	7.4
Ealing	17.3	14.6	16.3
Enfield	6.4	4.7	5.7
Haringey	30.8	21.1	27.1
Harrow	3.5	2.6	3.1
Hillingdon	2.5	2.2	2.3
Hounslow	8.0	7.7	7.9
Merton	6.9	3.6	5.5
Newham	13.1	10.0	11.9
Redbridge	4.3	3.7	4.1
Richmond upon Thames	3.3	2.6	3.0
Waltham Forest	9.8	7.2	8.7
County Boroughs
Bath	2.7	1.3	2.1
Birmingham	9.6	8	9.0
Blackburn	6.9	4.9	6.2
Bolton	4.7	5.2	4.9
Bradford	7.5	9.2	8.2
Bristol	3.9	2.8	3.5
Burton-upon-Trent	3.2	2.5	2.9
Coventry	5.7	7.8	6.5
Derby	11.4	8.2	10.0
Dewsbury	4.2	5.3	4.7
Dudley	2.8	2.6	2.7
Gloucester	4.8	3.3	4.2
Huddersfield	11.4	7.6	9.8
Ipswich	4	2.7	3.5
Leeds	4.4	3.8	4.2
Leicester	10.1	9.7	9.9
Luton	7.3	6.2	6.9
Manchester	5.2	4.0	4.7
Northampton	3.8	2.2	3.2
Nottingham	8.5	5.7	7.4
Oldham	2.1	2.4	2.2
Oxford	6.8	4.8	6.1

	Primary Schools	Secondary Schools	Percentage
County Boroughs—continued
Preston	7.7	6.7	7.3
Reading	6.8	5.2	6.2
Rochdale	4.4	4.2	4.3
Sheffield	2.6	1.9	2.3
Southampton	2.5	1.6	2.1
Walsall	6.2	6.7	6.4
Warley	9.7	9.3	9.6
West Bromwich	5.6	4.9	5.3
Wolverhampton	17.9	9.7	11.8