HC Deb 07 April 1982 vol 21 cc406-8W
Mr. Race

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what is the percentage of social service (lay nursery places available per 1,000 children aged under 5 years in each local authority in England with social services responsibilty.

Mr. Geoffrey FInsberg

The following table shows the number of full-time day nursery places provided by English local authorities at 31 March 1981, and the rates per 1,000 children aged under five:

Day Nurseries—31 March 1981
Local Authority Places Rate per thousand aged under 5
England 28,252 10.2
Cleveland 270 6.9
Cumbria 141 5.5
Durham 150 4.1
Northumberland 40 2.2
Gateshead 110 8.9
Newcastle upon Tyne 250 15.9
North Tyneside 91 8.4

Local Authority Places Rate per thousand aged under 5
South Tyneside* 200 22.8
Sunderland 220 11.0
Humberside 40 0.8
North Yorkshire 136 3.9
Bamsley 0 0.0
Doncaster 25 1.4
Rotherham 0 0.0
Sheffield 372 13.4
Bradford 452 13.7
Calderdale 85 7.5
Kirklees 186 7.7
Leeds 450 11.0
Wakefield 70 3.6
Cheshire 514 8.9
Lancashire 1,389 16.9
Bolton 215 12.7
Bury† 110 9.8
Manchester 1,217 45.5
Oldham 233 16.1
Rochdale 320 21.4
Salford 406 29.9
Stockport 152 8.5
Tameside 450 35.2
Trafford 240 18.8
Wigan 195 9.6
Knowsley 420 32.1
Liverpool 908 31.6
Sefton 286 16.8
St Helens 77 6.3
Wirral 220 11.1
Hereford/Worcester 61 1.6
Salop 0 0.0
Staffordshire 340 5.5
Warwickshire 0 0.0
Birmingham 1,443 22.4
Coventry 519 24.9
Dudley 0 0.0
Sandwell 140 7.5
Solihull 60 5.1
Walsall 120 7.8
Wolverhampton* 125 7.4
Derbyshire 425 7.9
Leicestershire 505 9.5
Lincolnshire 80 2.6
Northamptonshire* 100 2.8
Nottinghamshire 565 9.8
Bedfordshire 254 70
Berkshire 134 3.0
Buckinghamshire 50 1.3
Cambridgeshire 181 4.7
Essex 266 3.0
Hertfordshire 386 6.6
Norfolk 40 1.0
Oxfordshire 90 2.9
Suffolk 70 1.9
Camden 616 77.1
Greenwich 215 15.5
Hackney 546 39.3
Hammersmith 538 64.9
Islington 640 65.4
Kensington 354 60.1
Lambeth† 720 49.7
Lewisham 240 18.2
Southwark 572 46.9
Tower Hamlets 395 40'8
Wandsworth 667 420
Westminster 510 630
City of London 0 0.0
Barking 145 16.0
Barnet 281 16.8
Bexley 45 3.8
Brent 862 55.0
Bromley 50 3.2
Croydon 179 9.0
Ealing 352 20.8
Enfield 145 9.4

Local Authority Places Rate per thousand aged under 5
Haringey 280 21.6
Harrow 110 9.7
Havering 190 13.5
Hillingdon 250 17.4
Hounslow 191 14.9
Kingston upon Thames* 96 13.6
Merton* 139 14.8
Newham 253 16.7
Redbridge 70 5.6
Richmond upon Thames 131 18.5
Sutton 52 5.4
Waltham Forest 285 20.1
Dorset 105 3.6
Hampshire 339 3.9
Isle of Wight 0 0.0
Kent 32 0.4
Surrey 123 2.3
East Sussex 171 5.7
West Sussex 0 0.0
Wiltshire 0 0.0
Avon 550 10.5
Cornwall 0 0.0
Devon 74 1.5
Gloucestershire† 75 2.6
Isles of Scilly 0 0.0
Somerset 70 3.1
* 1979 figures.
† 1980 figures.