§ Mr. HardyTo 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 SquireThe information requested is shown in the following table.
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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