HC Deb 04 April 1989 vol 150 cc142-3W
Mr. Redmond

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will state for the latest date for which he has figures, the numbers of travellers' children of school age within the Doncaster metropolitan borough council area, as detailed in the statistics gathered by his Department's gipsy sites branch; and what were the figures for(a) 10 and (b) five years ago.

Mr. Trippier

Providing these statistics is a voluntary exercise, and I regret to say that Doncaster has not provided information on the numbers of travellers' children of school age in its borough since the bi-annual count began in 1979.