§ Mr. Maxwell-HyslopTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science whether he will publish a table showing, for local education authorities in England in each of the last three years for which records exist(a) how many children and what proportion of children of school age have been statemented as having special educational needs and (b) what extra resources in terms of teacher hours per statemented pupil per year have been made available by each local education authority in England respectively.
§ Mr. Alan Howarth[pursuant to the reply, 31 October, c. 113]: The number of children with statements of special educational needs in maintained schools and these children as a percentage of all pupils in maintained schools for whom each local education authority is responsible in England in 1986, 1987 and 1988 is given in the following table.
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Pupils with statements As a percentage of all pupils in maintained schools January of each year 1986 1987 1988 1986 1987 1988 Gateshead 569 568 483 1.7 1.8 1.6 Newcastle-upon-Tyne 793 785 770 2.0 2.0 2.0 North Tyneside 538 553 601 1.7 1.7 1.9 South Tyneside 378 411 457 1.5 1.7 1.9 Sunderland 926 893 825 1.8 1.7 1.7 Isles of Scilly 1 0 0 0.3 0.0 0.0 Avon 6,208 3,394 3,321 4.6 2.5 2.5 Bedfordshire 1,376 1,311 1,385 1.6 1.6 1.7 Berkshire 1,964 1,921 1,686 1.8 1.8 1.6 Buckinghamshire 2,462 2,429 2,441 2.5 2.4 2.5 Cambridgeshire 1,796 1,149 1,554 1.8 1.2 1.6 Cheshire 3,149 2,979 3,048 2.0 1.9 2.0 Cleveland 2,189 2,140 2,218 2.1 2.1 2.2 Cornwall 1,038 1,227 1,316 1.5 1.8 1.9 Cumbria 1,157 1,236 1,411 1.5 1.6 1.9 Derbyshire 2,664 3,002 2,824 1.8 2.1 2.0 Devon 2,447 2,609 2,821 1.8 2.0 2.1 Dorset 1,450 1,614 1,705 1.8 2.1 2.1 Durham 1,479 1,335 1,528 1.5 1.4 1.6 East Sussex 1,431 1,439 1,493 1.7 1.7 1.8 Essex 3,962 3,813 4,057 1.7 1.6 1.8 Gloucestershire 203 614 534 0.3 0.8 0.7 Hampshire 4,229 4,041 4,264 1.9 1.9 2.0 Hereford and Worcester 33 95 191 0.03 0.1 0.2 Hertfordshire 3,088 3,182 3,636 2.0 2.1 2.5 Humberside 2,205 2,088 1,962 1.5 1.5 1.4 Isle of Wight 298 288 309 1.7 1.7 1.8 Kent 4,123 3,838 4,264 1.8 1.7 1.9 Lancashire 3,441 3,481 3,361 1.6 1.6 1.6 Leicestershire 1,632 1,637 1,748 1.1 1.2 1.3 Lincolnshire 1,715 1,708 1,770 2.0 2.0 2.1 Norfolk 1,567 1,790 1,937 1.5 1.7 1.9 North Yorkshire 1,535 1,546 1,446 1.5 1.5 1.5 Northamptonshire 1,646 1,521 1,236 1.7 1.6 1.3 Northumberland 816 829 817 1.6 1.7 1.7 Nottinghamshire 2,267 2,159 2,085 1.4 1.4 1.4 Oxfordshire 847 779 728 1.1 1.1 1.0 Shropshire 1,063 1,093 1,238 1.7 1.7 2.0 Somerset 1,200 1,413 1,702 1.8 2.2 2.7 Staffordshire 2,411 2,636 2,558 1.4 1.6 1.6 Suffolk 1,380 1,405 1,577 1.5 1.6 1.8 Surrey 2,719 2,791 3,002 2.1 2.2 2.4 Warwickshire 1,471 1,408 1,545 1.9 1.9 2.1 West Sussex 1,112 1,121 1,151 1.2 1.2 1.3 Wiltshire 1,596 1,645 1,845 2.0 2.0 2.3 England 120,931 120,905 124,381 1.7 1.7 1.8 1A Nil Return was received from Brent Lea in 1986.