§ Mr. Peter Bruinvelsasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many single sex schools there are in England; if he will break down the numbers into local education authority areas, showing the number of schools (a) for boys and (b) for girls; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. DunnThe number of maintained single sex schools in England in January 1986 was 616. The breakdown by local education authority is as follows:
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Boys Schools Girls Schools Barking 1 1 Barnet 3 5 Bexley 3 3 Brent 2 2 Bromley 8 8 Croydon 7 7 Ealing 1 1 Enfield 4 3 Haringey 1 1 Harrow 2 2 Havering 2 2 Hillingdon 1 1 Hounslow 2 3 Kingston Upon Thames 4 4 Merton 4 4 Newham 3 3 Redbridge 1 1 Richmond Upon Thames 1 Sutton 7 5 Waltham Forest 5 5 Birmingham 12 13 Coventry 3 3 Dudley 1 Sandwell 1 1 Walsall 1 1 Wolverhampton 1 Knowsley 1 1 Liverpool 11 11 St. Helens 2 2 Sefton 2 2 Wirral 9 8 Manchester 3 3 Stockport 1 1 Tameside 3 2 Trafford 8 8 Bradford 2 2 Kirklees 1 1 Leeds 4 5 Newcastle Upon Tyne 1 1 Sunderland 1 1 Inner London 38 41 Avon 3 4 Bedfordshire 1 1 Berkshire 6 8 Buckinghamshire 7 7 Cambridgeshire 1 1 Cheshire 1 Cornwall 1 Derbyshire 2 2 Devon 5 5 Dorset 7 7 East Sussex 2 2 Essex 10 9 Gloucestershire 6 6 Hampshire 5 6 Hertfordshire 7 11 Humberside 6 5 Kent 33 36 Lancashire 6 5 Leicestershire 1 1 Lincolnshire 6 7 Norfolk 1 1 North Yorkshire 2 1 Northamptonshire 3 3 Nottinghamshire 1 2 Oxfordshire 2 2 Shropshire 2 1 Somerset 1 Surrey 3 2 Warwickshire 2 2 West Sussex 3 3 Wiltshire 2 2 England 303 313