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Mr. Butcher
On the basis of returns made to the Department by local education authorities in January 1988 the numbers of pupils being funded by local education authorities to attend independent schools, excluding pupils either at special schools or receiving special educational treatment, were as follows:
| Local education authorities |
|
Number of pupils |
| Barking |
0 |
| Barnet |
4 |
| Bexley |
0 |
| Brent |
0 |
| Bromley |
0 |
| Croydon |
8 |
| Ealing |
0 |
| Enfield |
9 |
| Haringey |
0 |
| Harrow |
0 |
| Havering |
7 |
| Hillingdon |
4 |
| Hounslow |
0 |
| Kingston-upon-Thames |
2 |
| Merton |
0 |
| Newham |
9 |
| Redbridge |
82 |
| Richmond-upon-Thames |
1 |
| Sutton |
0 |
| Waltham Forest |
0 |
| ILEA |
78 |
| Birmingham |
9 |
| Coventry |
0 |
| Dudley |
4 |
| Sandwell |
2 |
| Solihull |
0 |
| Walsall |
4 |
| Wolverhampton |
4 |
| Knowsley |
6 |
251W
|
Number of pupils |
| Liverpool |
5 |
| St. Helens |
5 |
| Sefton |
0 |
| Wirral |
630 |
| Bolton |
5 |
| Bury |
1 |
| Manchester |
0 |
| Oldham |
9 |
| Rochdale |
3 |
| Salford |
4 |
| Stockport |
5 |
| Tameside |
1 |
| Trafford |
1,524 |
| Wigan |
9 |
| Barnsley |
0 |
| Doncaster |
0 |
| Rotherham |
0 |
| Sheffield |
0 |
| Bradford |
0 |
| Calderdale |
180 |
| Kirklees |
3 |
| Leeds |
0 |
| Wakefield |
0 |
| Gateshead |
0 |
| Newcastle-upon-Tyne |
4 |
| North Tyneside |
0 |
| South Tyneside |
0 |
| Sunderland |
0 |
| Isles of Scilly |
0 |
| Avon |
16 |
| Bedfordshire |
0 |
| Berkshire |
0 |
| Buckinghamshire |
7 |
| Cambridgeshire |
26 |
| Cheshire |
956 |
| Cleveland |
8 |
| Cornwall |
0 |
| Cumbria |
8 |
| Derbyshire |
2 |
| Devon |
13 |
| Dorset |
3 |
| Durham |
4 |
| East Sussex |
32 |
| Essex |
5 |
| Gloucestershire |
31 |
| Hampshire |
11 |
| Hereford and Worcester |
257 |
| Hertfordshire |
13 |
| Humberside |
3 |
| Isle of Wight |
3 |
| Kent |
11 |
| Lancashire |
56 |
| Leicestershire |
12 |
| Lincolnshire |
624 |
| Norfolk |
7 |
| North Yorkshire |
8 |
| Northamptonshire |
0 |
| Northumberland |
0 |
| Nottinghamshire |
20 |
| Oxfordshire |
0 |
| Shropshire |
8 |
| Somerset |
11 |
| Staffordshire |
0 |
| Suffolk |
0 |
| Surrey |
28 |
| Warwickshire |
25 |
| West Sussex |
26 |
| Wiltshire |
97 |
| Clwyd |
15 |
| Dyfed |
1 |
| Gwent |
1 |
| Gwynedd |
20 |
| Mid Glamorgan |
0 |
| Powys |
0 |
252W
|
Number of pupils |
| South Glamorgan |
1 |
| West Glamorgan |
1 |