HC Deb 13 February 1996 vol 271 cc532-3W
Mr. Spearing

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if she will list for each of the areas of local education authorities for(a) Wandsworth, (b) Westminster, (c) Kensington and Chelsea and (d) Norfolk, (i) the number of three and four year olds, (ii) the number receiving nursery education in nursery schools or classes maintained by the authority, (iii) the number in nursery schools or classes not maintained by the education authority and (iv) (ii) and (iii) as a percentage of (i). [15101]

Mr. Robin Squire

The information requested is shown in the table:

Provision of education for under five's—January 19951
Wandsworth Westminster Kensingtson and Chelsea Norfolk
Estimated population aged three and four as at 31 December 1994 6,800 4,000 3,300 18,300
Nursery schools
Pupils 216 190 249 404
Percentage3 3 5 8 2
Primary schools
Nursery classes
Pupils 2,176 993 608 857
Percentage3 32 25 18 5
Infant classes2
Pupils 1,624 574 385 5,646
Percentage3 24 14 12 31
Provision of education for under five's—January 19951
Wandsworth West minster Kensingtson and Chelsea Norfolk
Special schools
Maintained
Pupils 11 0 0 47
Percentage3 0 0
Non-maintained
Pupils 0 0 0 0
Percentage3 0 0 0 0
Independent schools
Pupils 897 486 836 635
Percentage3 13 12 25 3
— negligible (i.e. less than 0.5 per cent.)
1 Excludes pupils who became 5 years of age by 1 January 1995.
2 Inludes reception and other classes.
3 Pupils aged 3 and 4 years old expressed as a percentage of the 3 and 4 year old population at 31 December 1994.