HC Deb 08 December 1988 vol 143 cc336-8W
Mr. Harry Greenway

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will detail the percentage of under five-year-olds in pre-school playgroups in each local authority; and if he will make a statement.

Mrs. Currie

We do not have information in exactly the form requested. The available information relates to the number of places in playgroups and the table gives the percentage of the population aged under five years for each local authority in England.

Places in playgroups as a percentage of the population aged under five in each local authority in England at 31 March 1987
Local Authority Places in playgroups as a percentage of the population aged under five
England 13.8
Cleveland 8.0
Cumbria 16.3
Durham 11.2
Northumberland 18.4
Gateshead 8.8
Newcastle upon Tyne 10.4
North Tyneside 6.1
South Tyneside 2.7
Sunderland 6.7
Humberside 10.8
North Yorkshire 21.5
Barnsley 10.0
Doncaster 4.4
Rotherham 8.8
Sheffield 11.9
Bradford 8.4
Calderdale 15.0
Kirklees 9.2
Leeds 11.6
Wakefield 6.4
Cheshire 12.8
Lancashire 11.8
Bolton 5.7
Bury 16.0
Manchester 6.1
Oldham 10.1
Rochdale 9.0
Salford 6.6
Stockport 11.8
Tameside 7.8
Trafford 15.3
Wigan 13.1
Knowsley 6.3
Liverpool 8.2
St. Helens 17.5
Sefton 6.8
Wirral 15.1
Hereford and Worcester 20.4
Shropshire 17.4
Staffordshire 12.6
Warwickshire 13.5
Birmingham 11.4
Coventry 12.2
Dudley 10.3
Sandwell 6.2
Solihull 11.6
Walsall 13.6
Wolverhampton 9.2
Derbyshire 12.0
Leicestershire 15.5
Lincolnshire 19.0
Northamptonshire 15.9
Nottinghamshire 9.5
Bedfordshire 14.0
Berkshire 13.4
Buckinghamshire 19.7
Cambridgeshire 14.5
Essex 18.2
Hertfordshire 14.2
Norfolk 20.2
Oxfordshire 19.6
Suffolk 16.8
Camden 10.9
Greenwich 9.7
Hackney 6.8
Hammersmith and Fulham 7.8
Islington 9.8
Local Authority Places in playgroups as a percentage of the population aged under five
Kensington and Chelsea 6.0
Lambeth 6.2
Lewisham 9.0
Southwark 7.5
Tower Hamlets 4.9
Wandsworth 8.2
Westminster 9.7
City of London 11.0
Barking and Dagenham 9.3
Barnet 14.3
Bexley 16.6
Brent 6.8
Bromley 24.1
Croydon 15.0
Ealing 8.4
Enfield 7.6
Haringey 6.7
Harrow 15.3
Havering 14.5
Hillingdon 15.4
Hounslow 9.4
Kingston upon Thames 10.1
Merton 10.8
Newham 3.2
Redbridge 18.8
Richmond upon Thames 23.1
Sutton 14.7
Waltham Forest 7.2
Dorset 19.7
Hampshire 17.7
Isle of Wight 22.7
Kent 18.2
Surrey 20.7
East Sussex 17.7
West Sussex 22.7
Wiltshire 19.8
Avon 13.5
Cornwall and Isles of Scilly 21.0
Devon 17.4
Gloucestershire 22.4
Somerset 21.0
Note: 1Some figures have been estimated.