§ Mrs. Renée Shortasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what percentage of children aged 391W under five years attended nursery classes at the latest convenient date; what were the figures for each of the last five years; and if he will break these down to show each local education authority's figures.
§ Dr. Boyson[pursuant to his reply, 12 November 1981, c. 158]:The following is the information requested for schools in England:
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Pupils under five years in maintained nursery schools and in nursery classes of maintained primary schools as a percentage of the estimated population aged three and four years*. January of each year 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 Barking 8 15 20 22 22 26 Barnet 16 18 21 25 27 28 Bexley 7 8 9 9 9 11 Brent 10 16 19 27 30 34 Bromley 1 1 1 2 2 2 Croydon 4 5 6 6 6 7 Ealing 14 18 22 22 25 31 Enfield 10 12 15 19 20 21 Haringey 22 27 29 32 35 40 Harrow 8 10 12 15 17 17 Havering 2 4 4 4 4 4 Havering Hillingdon 18 23 29 33 40 41 Hounslow 21 22 25 30 31 33 Kingston-upon-Thames 28 28 29 32 31 32 Merton 21 29 33 34 38 40 Newham 26 34 39 43 47 53 Redbridge 6 9 9 9 9 9 Richmond-upon-Thames 7 9 12 9 12 18 Sutton 13 14 14 14 14 15 Waltham Forest 8 18 22 32 34 39 Inner London 26 31 34 36 38 38 Birmingham 15 20 21 25 26 28 Coventry 11 14 15 18 19 23 Dudley 18 19 21 22 22 23 Sandwell 21 25 26 28 34 36 Solihull 11 15 18 19 21 25 Walsall 21 34 43 45 47 55 Wolverhampton 23 33 36 39 46 50 Knowsley 7 10 15 16 15 21 Liverpool 25 30 35 38 40 45 St. Helens 7 14 17 17 18 18 Sefton 16 19 21 25 27 26 Wirral 13 15 16 16 17 18 Bolton 21 27 27 29 30 32 Bury 3 8 9 11 12 15 Manchester 46 51 50 52 52 53 Oldham 9 15 17 19 24 24 Rochdale 18 22 23 25 28 29 Salford 22 24 28 33 37 39 Stockport 7 9 10 11 12 13 Tameside 14 19 21 25 30 37 Trafford 6 9 9 10 10 11 Wigan 8 13 15 16 17 19 Barnsley 28 37 39 42 46 52 Doncaster 21 29 34 36 38 40 Rotherham 20 29 34 37 37 39 Sheffield 19 23 28 30 30 35 Bradford 19 24 25 26 28 29 Calderdale 16 18 21 23 23 24 Kirklees 13 16 22 26 27 27 Leeds 13 15 16 18 20 23 Wakefield 18 27 32 38 40 39 Gateshead 11 15 18 20 23 30 Newcastle upon Tyne 21 24 27 32 36 39 North Tyneside 17 25 30 38 45 47 South Tyneside 17 26 32 38 41 49 Sunderland 13 19 23 28 30 31 Avon 10 10 11 11 12 12 Bedfordshire 10 15 23 26 29 31 Berkshire 14 18 20 21 21 22 Buckinghamshire 9 11 12 13 13 13 Cambridgeshire 14 11 11 11 11 12 Cheshire 10 14 16 18 17 19 Cleveland 20 28 33 40 43 44
January of each year 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1951 Cornwall (including Isles of Scilly) 5 8 10 11 12 13 Cumbria 12 15 16 17 18 18 Derbyshire 12 17 18 19 19 19 Devon 4 5 5 6 7 8 Dorset 4 4 4 5 5 5 Durham 16 22 27 30 30 32 East Sussex 5 6 7 7 7 8 Essex 3 4 4 5 5 5 Gloucestershire 0 — — — — — Hampshire 3 4 4 4 5 5 Hereford and Worcester 2 2 3 5 5 5 Hertfordshire 19 25 29 32 32 30 Humberside 9 14 19 22 23 25 Isle of Wight 4 4 5 5 5 5 Kent 3 4 4 4 4 5 Lancashire 11 12 13 13 13 15 Leicestershire 20 21 21 22 22 22 Lincolnshire 5 5 6 7 7 8 Norfolk 4 4 4 5 5 5 North Yorkshire 7 12 14 16 16 16 Northamptonshire 6 7 8 8 9 8 Northumberland 7 9 9 12 13 16 Nottinghamshire 13 25 35 39 39 39 Oxfordshire 10 11 11 12 12 13 Shropshire 8 8 10 10 10 11 Somerset 2 2 2 2 2 2 Staffordshire 13 17 20 22 22 24 Suffolk 7 7 9 10 10 10 Surrey 9 10 11 12 12 12 Warwickshire 10 12 13 14 15 15 West Sussex 2 3 3 3 3 3 Wiltshire 0 1 0 1 1 1 England 11 15 17 18 20 21 * Excluding pupils under five in infant classes of primary schools.