§ Mr. BlunkettTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, pursuant to her answer of 25 November,Official Report, columns 24–26, what was the (a) number and (b) percentage of three and four-year-olds in (i) reception classes in primary schools and (ii) nursery schools or nursery classes in primary schools, in each local education authority and nationally in January. [9778]
§ Mr. Robin SquireThe available information is shown in the table:
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Pupils aged three and four in maintained nursery and primary schools in England—Position as at January 1996 Nursery schools and nursery classes within primary schools Infant classes1 Pupils Percentage of population Pupils Percentage of population Camden 1,049 25 984 23 Greenwich 3,344 50 1,103 17 Hackney 2,242 33 1,597 24 Hammersmith and Fulham 1,731 44 559 14 Islington 1,908 37 1,475 28 Kensington and Chelsea 851 27 368 12 Lambeth 2,433 31 1,056 13 Lewisham 2,753 37 1,123 15 Southwark 3,065 41 2,060 27 Tower Hamlets 3,545 61 1,547 26 Wandsworth 2,387 33 1,668 23 Westminister 1,246 32 544 14 Barking and Dagenham 2,101 46 1,543 34 Barnet 2,544 31 2,153 26 Bexley 1,533 25 2,022 33 Brent 2,600 36 2,066 29 Bromley 183 3 2,395 33 Croydon 2,148 23 2,888 31 Ealing 3,821 46 2,458 30 Enfield 1,682 22 2,417 31 Haringey 2,769 44 1,905 31 Harrow 1,029 19 1,605 29 Havering 552 10 1,943 36 Hillingdon 3,383 50 151 2 Hounslow 2,396 40 1,693 28 Kingston upon Thames 1,334 39 1,074 31 Merton 2,711 54 1,007 20 Newham 4,575 52 1,279 15 Redbridge 1,430 22 1,507 23 Richmond upon Thames 863 21 1,160 29 Sutton 1,949 40 74 2 Waltham Forest 2,817 39 1,051 15 Birmingham 11,217 35 10,029 31 Coventry 2,085 24 2,817 33 Dudley 3,270 39 2,676 32 Sandwell 4,556 53 2,912 34 Solihull 1,872 37 1,990 40 73W
Pupils aged three and four in maintained nursery and primary schools in England—Position as at January 1996 Nursery schools and nursery classes within primary schools Infant classes1 Pupils Percentage of population Pupils Percentage of population Walsall 4,388 59 2,396 32 Wolverhampton 3,912 54 2,224 31 Knowsley 2,957 63 1,673 36 Liverpool 6,160 46 4,212 32 St. Helens 1,620 33 1,600 33 Sefton 2,882 40 2,532 35 Wirral 2,251 26 2,936 34 Bolton 3,172 42 2,503 33 Bury 1,625 32 1,636 32 Manchester 7,307 53 2,432 18 Oldham 2,452 37 2,168 32 Tochdale 2,243 35 2,048 32 Salford 3,663 55 2,052 31 Stockport 2,188 29 2,505 33 Tameside 2,596 40 2,143 33 Trafford 2,640 45 1,828 31 Wigan 2,167 25 2,778 32 Barnsley 2,957 47 1,124 18 Doncaster 3,654 44 2,756 33 Rotherham 3,347 47 1,200 17 Sheffield 5,729 42 2,531 19 Bradford 6,550 44 4,263 29 Calderdale 1,945 35 1,780 32 Kirklees 4,475 41 3,472 32 Leeds 8,980 46 5,771 30 Wakefield 4,813 54 1,818 20 Gateshead 1,926 37 1,686 33 Newcastle upon Tyne 2,799 38 2,250 31 North Tyneside 2,671 55 1,671 34 South Tyneside 2,226 55 1,373 34 Sunderland 3,678 44 2,628 32 Avon 5,267 21 7,782 31 Bedfordshire 5,254 32 2,972 18 Berkshire 6,987 32 922 4 Buckinghamshire 3,342 18 3,022 16 Cambridge 2,254 12 5,854 31 Cheshire 5,569 22 8,551 33 Cleveland 10,017 63 5,324 34 Cornwall 1,689 15 3,584 32 Cumbria 3,470 28 4,120 33 Derbyshire 9,815 39 5,971 24 Devon 3,153 13 4,066 16 Dorset 800 5 4,875 33 Durham 7,325 47 5,235 33 East Sussex 1,963 12 5,247 32 Essex 3,389 8 9,400 23 Gloucestershire 22 0 4,388 31 Hampshire 2,021 5 13,311 32 Hereford and worcester 2,179 12 2,877 16 Hertfordshire 9,900 36 5,481 20 Humberside 9,369 39 5,769 24 Isle of Wight 170 6 960 36 Kent 2,467 6 13,260 33 Lancashire 8,163 21 12,617 33 Leicestershire 5,090 20 4,924 20 Lincolnshire 2,349 16 4,880 34 Norfolk 1,409 8 5,491 30 North Yorkshire 3,928 22 5,198 30 Northamptonshire 3,332 20 5,491 32 Northumberland 3,112 43 2,496 34
Pupils aged three and four in maintained nursery and primary schools in England—Position as at January 1996 Nursery schools and nursery classes within primary schools Infant classes1 Pupils Percentage of population Pupils Percentage of population Nottinghamshire 14,125 51 2,152 8 Oxfordshire 3,377 20 1,231 7 Shropshire 2,325 21 2,083 19 Somerset 607 5 3,873 33 Staffordshire 7,336 27 9,075 33 Suffolk 3,306 19 2,606 15 Surrey 3,238 12 7,486 29 Warwickshire 2,108 17 4,178 34 West Sussex 1,281 8 2,941 17 Wiltshire 792 5 3,630 23 England 2,3 364,271 28 344,222 26 1 Includes reception and other classes. 2 Includes Isles of Scilly. 3 Includes Corporation of London.