§ Mr. SteinbergTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science (1) pursuant to his answer of 16 January to the hon. Member for Newham, South (Mr. 375W Spearing). Official Report, columns 580-82, if he will list the reasons why some of the returns of assessment tests for seven-year-old readers submitted by local education authorities were not usable;
(2) if he will state for each local education authority the percentage of their assessment tests for seven-year-old readers which they submitted to his Department.
§ Mr. EggarCertain returns could not be used because they were incomplete or wrongly completed. Those returns were referred back to the LEA concerned. Any corrected results which were returned in time for publication and were usable, were included in the report published on 19 December. The table gives the percentage of returns of the test results for seven-year-olds received for each local education authority. Both usable and unusable returns are included.
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Proportion of returns from maintained schools with 7 year olds processed for the purposes of publication of 19 December Report LEA Percentage returns received Camden 97 Greenwich 98 Hackney 100 Hammersmith 100 Islington 88 Kensington and Chelsea 100 Lewisham 94 Southwark 91 Wandsworth 92 Westminster 100 Barking 100 Barnet 97 Bexley 100 Brent 100 Bromley 100 Croydon 100 Ealing 92 Enfield 100 Haringey 100 Harrow 94 Havering 100 Hillingdon 100 Hounslow 93 Kingston upon Thames 100 Merton 100 Newham 93 Redbridge 100 Richmond upon Thames 91 Sutton 100 Waltham Forest 100 Birmingham 78 Coventry 100 Dudley 100 Sandwell 95 Solihull 98 Walsall 99 Wolverhampton 97 Knowsley 98 Liverpool 93 St. Helens 98 Sefton 97 Wirral 99 Bolton 87 Bury 100 Manchester 97 Oldham 100 Rochdale 95 Salford 95 Stockport 100 Tameside 99 Trafford 98 Wigan 97 Barnsley 97 Doncaster 100
LEA Percentage returns received Rotherham 100 Sheffield 89 Bradford 98 Calderdale 100 Kirklees 99 Leeds 96 Wakefield 99 Gateshead 97 Newcastle upon Tyne 99 North Tyneside 75 South Tyneside 100 Sunderland 100 Avon 100 Bedfordshire 96 Berkshire 100 Buckinghamshire 76 Cambridgeshire 100 Cheshire 99 Cleveland 100 Cornwall and Isles of Scilly 100 Cumbria 93 Derbyshire 94 Devon 100 Dorset 88 Durham 97 East Sussex 66 Essesx 100 Gloucestershire 100 Hampshire 90 Hereford and Worcester 100 Hertfordshire 99 Humberside 99 Isle of Wight 96 Kent 99 Lancashire 95 Leicestershire 81 Lincolnshire 100 Norfolk 75 North Yorkshire 99 Northamptonshire 100 Northumberland 98 Nottinghamshire 93 Oxfordshire 87 Shropshire 98 Somerset 98 Staffordshire 96 Suffolk 100 Surrey 98 Warwickshire 100 West Sussex 99 Wiltshire 98 England 95