HC Deb 21 January 1997 vol 288 cc545-6W
Mr. Hardy

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many children in primary schools are currently in classes of more than 30 pupils. [11895]

Mr. Robin Squire

The information requested is shown in the following table.

Number of pupils in one teacher classes of size 31 or more in maintained primary schools in each local education authority area in England: January 1996
Corporation of London 0
Camden 447
Greenwich 1,412
Hackney 664
Hammersmith 1,036
Islington 982
Kensington and Chelsea 187
Lambeth 857
Lewisham 917
Southwark 2,051
Tower Hamlets 859
Wandsworth 2,373
Westminster 544
Barking 1,603
Barnet 1,848
Bexley 8,821
Brent 2,259
Bromley 11,850
Croydon 6,341
Ealing 5,508
Enfield 8,840
Haringey 984
Harrow 3,833
Havering 5,678
Hillingdon 4,820
Hounslow 5,674
Kingston upon Thames
7,095
Merton 3,955
Newham 2,381
Redbridge 9,060
Richmond upon Thames 2,309
Sutton 4,235

Number of pupils in one teacher classes of size 31 or more in maintained primary schools in each local education authority area in England: January 1996
Waltham Forest 3,282
Birmingham 25,642
Coventry 7,638
Dudley 6,618
Sandwell 11,812
Solihull 8,403
Walsall 7,241
Wolverhampton 6,762
Knowsley 5,254
Liverpool 12,051
St. Helens 5,563
Sefton 10,670
Wirral 6,987
Bolton 11,719
Bury 6,968
Manchester 9,687
Oldham 9,434
Rochdale 8,316
Salford 6,997
Stockport 8,247
Tameside 11,508
Trafford 9,389
Wigan 11,087
Barnsley 8,677
Doncaster 9,609
Rotherham 5,732
Sheffield 11,181
Bradford 11,449
Calderdale 6,331
Kirklees 14,395
Leeds 21,455
Wakefild 10,673
Gateshead 2,443
Newcastle upon Tyne 6,792
North Tyneside 4,897
South Tyneside 4,067
Sunderland 4,148
Isles of Scily 0
Avon 26,647
Bedforshire 11,867
Berkshire 18,309
Buckinghamshire 22,753
Cambridgeshire 18,065
Cheshire 32,225
Cleveland 13,869
Cornwall 14,936
Cumbria 11,382
Derbyshire 41,217
Devon 28,078
Dorset 19,654
Durham 19,881
East Sussex 20,971
Essex 34,741
Gloucetershire 14,246
Hampshire 44,938
Hereford and Worcester 13,225
Hertfordshire 23,396
Humberside 27,832
Isle of Wight 2,243
Kent 44,212
Lancasire 54,099
Leicestershire 21,784
Lincolnshire 13,962
Norfolk 13,224
North Yorkshire 18,663
Northamptonshire 11,089
Northumberland 8,478
Nottinghamshire 32,931
Oxfordshire 10,608
Shropshire 13,425
Somerset 13,649
Staffordshire 32,163
Suffolk 7,940
Surrey 14,197
Warwickshire 17,566
West Sussex 14,447
Wiltshire 15,128
England 1,260,587