HC Deb 24 July 1990 vol 177 cc146-8W
Mr. Andrew Smith

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many students in each England and Wales local authority area received(a) mandatory awards and (b) discretionary awards in the latest year for which figures are available.

Mr. MacGregor

The data required are listed in the table.

Mandatory and discretionary award holders: academic year 1988–89
Local education authority Total mandatory award holders1 Total discretionary award holders2
Barking 320 321
Barnet 3,946 506
Bexley 1,326 277
Brent 2,796 568
Bromley 2,897 367
Croydon 3,137 917
Ealing 2,716 710
Enfield 2,253 122
Haringey 2,153 678
Harrow 2,504 729
Havering 1,207 601
Hillingdon 1,551 552
Hounslow 1,710 512
Kingston-Upon-Thames 1,455 237
Merton 1,583 415
Newham 1,245 748
Redbridge 1,965 811
Richmond-Upon-Thames 2,067 274
Sutton 1,334 301

Local education authority Total mandatory award holders1 Total discretionary award holders2
Waltham Forest 1,425 378
Inner London 18,469 7,972
Birmingham 7,534 2,226
Coventry 2,619 692
Dudley 2,025 1,349
Sandwell 1,394 1,391
Solihull 2,229 189
Walsall 1,939 1,441
Wolverhampton 1,968 71
Knowsley 853 1,238
Liverpool 3,733 2,238
St. Helens 1,502 1,094
Sefton 3,556 138
Wirral 3,679 1,469
Bolton 2,442 1,780
Bury 1,781 1,588
Manchester 3,004 2,688
Oldham 1,479 752
Rochdale 1,406 987
Salford 1,177 789
Stockport 3,336 1,421
Tameside 1,179 938
Trafford 2,716 944
Wigan 2,215 2,716
Barnsley 1,245 1,255
Doncaster 1,923 1,252
Rotherham 1,684 1,726
Sheffield 3,994 3,239
Bradford 2,994 979
Calderdale 1,428 348
Kirkless 2,960 2,844
Leeds 5,260 1,534
Wakefield 1,780 2,201
Gateshead 1,188 174
Newcastle-upon-Tyne 2,047 911
North Tyneside 1,516 1,184
South Tyneside 1,005 226
Sunderland 1,712 667
Isles of Scilly 28 25
Avon 8,333 2,664
Bedfordshire 3,938 1,666
Berkshire 7,010 1,060
Buckinghamshire 6,978 520
Cambridgeshire 5,264 451
Cheshire 10,048 1,749
Cleveland 4,417 1,136
Cornwall 3,655 2,005
Cumbria 3,513 1,426
Derbyshire 6,594 7,420
Devon 8,198 2,924
Dorset 4,743 1,727
Durham 3,833 482
East Sussex 5,332 635
Essex 10,063 6,701
Gloucestershire 4,877 1,694
Hampshire 13,983 3,404
Hereford and Worcester 6,100 463
Hertfordshire 9,975 1,074
Humberside 5,852 4,229
Isle of Wight 875 291
Kent 11,416 6,706
Lancashire 13,452 5,311
Leicestershire 7,523 3,516
Lincolnshire 4,487 1,099
Norfolk 4,217 2,447
North Yorkshire 7,806 3,490
Northamptonshire 3,531 422
Northumberland 2,557 1,533
Nottinghamshire 6,781 906
Oxfordshire 5,530 473
Shropshire 3,456 913
Somerset 3,675 1,317
Staffordshire 7,829 701
Suffolk 4,029 1,445

Local education authority Total mandatory award holders1 Total discretionary award holders2
Surrey 12,015 1,306
Warwickshire 4,776 2,095
West Sussex 5,684 671
Wiltshire 4,141 1,111
Clwyd 3,618 1,098
Dyfed 3,512 1,991
Gwent 3,687 3,281
Gwynedd 2,985 2,192
Mid-Glamorgan 3,795 3,441
Powys 1,008 616
South Glamorgan 4,314 476
West Glamorgan 3,374 295
Total England and Wales 415,368 157,273
1 Excludes sandwich students in their placement year who receive a fees only award.
2 Excludes sandwich students in their placement year who receive a fees only award. Includes all other higher education and further education discretionary award holders.

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