Mr. Jackson
The number of children under five attending maintained nursery schools, nursery classes and infant classes in primary schools as a percentage of the estimated three and four-year-old population in each local education authority in England in January 1988 is given in the following table. Figures for Wales are the responsibility of my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Wales.
| Percentage of under fives in nursery and primary schools January 1988 |
|
Nursery schools |
Nursery classes |
Infant classes |
| Barking |
0.0 |
30.7 |
32.3 |
| Barnet |
6.7 |
22.9 |
24.6 |
| Bexley |
3.2 |
10.3 |
12.9 |
| Brent |
3.9 |
28.7 |
26.5 |
| Bromley |
0.0 |
1.9 |
14.3 |
| Croydon |
4.8 |
2.1 |
28.5 |
| Ealing |
6.7 |
27.2 |
27.0 |
| Enfield |
0.0 |
21.3 |
29.6 |
| Haringey |
4.6 |
35.5 |
27.9 |
| Harrow |
0.0 |
16.2 |
27.5 |
| Havering |
0.0 |
4.1 |
32.4 |
16W
|
Nursery schools |
Nursery classes |
Infant classes |
| Hillingdon |
2.0 |
44.4 |
3.3 |
| Hounslow |
0.0 |
68.6 |
0.6 |
| Kingston upon Thames |
7.6 |
23.2 |
23.3 |
| Merton |
0.0 |
39.2 |
19.5 |
| Newham |
14.5 |
43.3 |
1.5 |
| Redbridge |
0.0 |
10.1 |
14.2 |
| Richmond upon Thames |
1.8 |
15.4 |
27.3 |
| Sutton |
5.9 |
13.8 |
0.7 |
| Waltham Forest |
5.5 |
34.5 |
12.7 |
| Inner London |
7.2 |
30.9 |
12.9 |
| Birmingham |
8.1 |
24.4 |
32.5 |
| Coventry |
5.3 |
18.4 |
31.3 |
| Dudley |
5.4 |
27.0 |
14.6 |
| Sandwell |
2.6 |
43.8 |
32.5 |
| Solihull |
0.0 |
29.4 |
33.6 |
| Walsall |
11.1 |
46.2 |
33.8 |
| Wolverhampton |
12.8 |
45.2 |
14.2 |
| Knowsley |
0.0 |
38.2 |
31.1 |
| Liverpool |
4.6 |
45.0 |
33.4 |
| St. Helens |
1.4 |
29.1 |
31.5 |
| Sefton |
4.4 |
24.3 |
31.9 |
| Wirral |
3.0 |
15.8 |
31.3 |
| Bolton |
7.5 |
30.1 |
30.7 |
| Bury |
3.6 |
20.0 |
31.8 |
| Manchester |
4.4 |
53.6 |
16.7 |
| Oldham |
0.0 |
33.9 |
31.3 |
| Rochdale |
14.9 |
15.4 |
32.1 |
| Salford |
14.6 |
37.8 |
33.2 |
| Stockport |
10.5 |
4.4 |
30.0 |
| Tameside |
5.6 |
35.6 |
33.8 |
| Trafford |
0.0 |
14.3 |
7.5 |
| Wigan |
2.3 |
23.4 |
33.2 |
| Barnsley |
3.2 |
46.5 |
17.2 |
| Doncaster |
0.0 |
39.0 |
34.8 |
| Rotherham |
5.2 |
35.0 |
16.3 |
| Sheffield |
6.3 |
36.3 |
19.0 |
| Bradford |
3.5 |
32.7 |
18.7 |
| Calderdale |
1.8 |
25.8 |
33.7 |
| Kirklees |
6.3 |
33.2 |
19.1 |
| Leeds |
1.5 |
32.7 |
21.8 |
| Wakefleld |
5.8 |
41.5 |
22.3 |
| Gateshead |
1.0 |
33.3 |
30.6 |
| Newcastle-upon-Tyne |
8.9 |
31.0 |
29.8 |
| North Tyneside |
6.2 |
46.1 |
31.4 |
| South Tyneside |
18.8 |
32.3 |
31.7 |
| Sunderland |
11.4 |
24.0 |
32.0 |
| Avon |
6.3 |
8.8 |
30.9 |
| Bedfordshire |
8.9 |
21.1 |
5.3 |
| Berkshire |
10.0 |
14.4 |
1.2 |
| Buckinghamshire |
3.0 |
9.1 |
5.7 |
| Cambridgeshire |
3.9 |
7.9 |
29.4 |
| Cheshire |
3.5 |
17.4 |
32.0 |
| Cleveland |
1.0 |
52.7 |
19.3 |
| Cornwall1 |
1.0 |
13.1 |
30.1 |
| Cumbria |
6.6 |
14.6 |
33.2 |
| Derbyshire |
5.4 |
23.0 |
24.8 |
| Devon |
1.1 |
8.7 |
15.7 |
| Dorset |
0.0 |
6.0 |
29.0 |
| Durham |
16.6 |
22.1 |
29.1 |
| East Sussex |
2.0 |
5.0 |
30.0 |
| Essex |
0.7 |
5.2 |
14.7 |
| Gloucestershire |
0.0 |
0.0 |
31.4 |
| Hampshire |
0.7 |
4.3 |
15.2 |
| Hereford and Worcester |
0.0 |
6.1 |
9.6 |
| Hertfordshire |
6.9 |
22.8 |
17.6 |
| Humberside |
4.5 |
28.4 |
19.9 |
| Isle of Wight |
0.0 |
5.6 |
34.1 |
| Kent |
0.2 |
4.9 |
6.6 |
| Lancashire |
9.4 |
7.6 |
31.3 |
17W
|
Nursery schools |
Nursery classes |
Infant classes |
| Leicestershire |
0.2 |
21.4 |
14.6 |
| Lincolnshire |
2.2 |
5.3 |
20.1 |
| Norfolk |
2.4 |
2.8 |
25.0 |
| North Yorkshire |
2.0 |
15.9 |
25.7 |
| Northamptonshire |
3.6 |
14.0 |
32.9 |
| Northumberland |
1.8 |
24.4 |
28.9 |
| Nottinghamshire |
2.3 |
4.9 |
7.3 |
| Oxfordshire |
3.4 |
9.3 |
3.7 |
| Shropshire |
1.7 |
9.8 |
21.8 |
| Somerset |
0.0 |
0.8 |
32.1 |
| Staffordshire |
7.0 |
15.5 |
21.5 |
| Suffolk |
0.6 |
13.6 |
14.3 |
| Surrey |
1.8 |
9.6 |
11.9 |
| Warwickshire |
6.5 |
11.2 |
32.5 |
| West Sussex |
2.9 |
0.6 |
4.7 |
| Wiltshire |
0.0 |
2.1 |
16.1 |
| England |
4.2 |
19.7 |
20.9 |
| 1 Includes Isles of Scilly. |