HC Deb 17 January 1995 vol 252 cc398-9W
Mr. Byers

To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many three and four-year-olds there are in nursery classes, nursery schools or primary reception classes for each local education authority; and what percentage this represents of the population in those age groups in January 1994.

Mr. Robin Squire

Information about the number of pupils under five years of age being taught in maintained nursery and primary schools in each local education authority in England in January 1994 is shown in the table.

Pupils under five in maintained nursery and primary schools in each LEA in England January 1994
LEA Pupils1 Percentage of Population
Camden 1,979 49
Greenwich 4,267 62
Hackney 3,170 52
Hammersmith and Fulham 2,179 58
Islington 3,261 69
Kensington and Chelsea 1,264 38
Lambeth 3,457 49
Lewisham 3,763 52
Southwark 5,167 73
Tower Hamlets 4,897 84
Wandsworth 4,089 62
Westminster 1,671 44
Barking and Dagenham 3,340 74
Barnet 4,751 57
Bexley 2,475 40
Brent 4,662 68
Bromley 2,491 33
Croydon 4,376 47
Ealing 5,816 73
Enfield 3,999 54
Haringey 4,394 76
Harrow 2,633 50
Havering 2,435 43
Hillingdon 3,278 48
Hounslow 4,189 72
Kingston upon Thames 2,172 61
Merton 3,683 75
Newham 4,563 58
Redbridge 2,443 40
Richmond upon Thames 1,887 44
Sutton 1,885 40
Waltham Forest 3,635 54
Birmingham 20,363 66
Coventry 5,097 58
Dudley 5,636 69
Sandwell 7,509 90
Solihull 3,707 71
Walsall 6,808 92
Wolverhampton 6,012 85
Knowsley 4,334 88
Liverpool 10,904 87
St Helens 3,210 68
Sefton 4,967 64
Wirral 5,188 57
Bolton 5,632 72

Pupils under five in maintained nursery and primary schools in each LEA in England January 1994
LEA Pupils1 Percentage of Population
Bury 3,165 61
Manchester 9,875 73
Oldham 4,653 70
Rochdale 4,133 64
Salford 5,541 88
Stockport 4,363 57
Tameside 4,731 73
Trafford 3,942 69
Wigan 4,971 57
Barnsley 3,959 66
Doncaster 6,187 74
Rotherham 4,337 60
Sheffield 8,230 63
Bradford 10,243 70
Calderdale 3,637 68
Kirklees 7,732 72
Leeds 14,534 75
Wakefield 6,438 72
Gateshead 3,456 68
Newcastle upon Tyne 5,039 72
North Tyneside 4,195 87
South Tyneside 3,555 86
Sunderland 6,024 74
Avon 13,259 53
Bedfordshire 8,115 49
Berkshire 7,077 33
Buckinghamshire 5,906 32
Cambridgeshire 8,078 43
Cheshire 13,995 53
Cleveland 14,481 90
Cornwall 5,242 45
Cumbria 6,954 56
Derbyshire 15,235 60
Devon 6,946 27
Dorset 5,655 37
Durham 12,050 77
East Sussex 6,772 39
Essex 9,208 22
Gloucestershire 4,467 32
Hampshire 15,098 36
Hereford and Worcester 4,044 22
Hertfordshire 13,880 50
Humberside 14,567 62
Isle of Wight 1,087 39
Kent 15,102 36
Lancashire 20,212 53
Leicestershire 9,922 38
Lincolnshire 6,205 43
Norfolk 6,254 34
North Yorkshire 8,861 49
Northamptonshire 8,471 50
Northumberland 5,405 71
Nottinghamshire 15,688 57
Oxfordshire 4,033 25
Shropshire 4,026 36
Somerset 4,466 37
Staffordshire 15,928 56
Suffolk 5,595 32
Surrey 7,622 29
Warwickshire 6,344 49
West Sussex 3,901 22
Wiltshire 3,829 24
England2 3 674,596 52
1 Excludes pupils who became 5 years of age by 1 January 1994
2 Includes the Isles of Scilly
3 Includes the Corporation of London