School Psychologists

HC Deb 20 April 1998 vol 310 cc498-500W

Mr. Brady

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what is the ratio of school psychologists to school pupils for each local education authority area. [37958]

Ms Estelle Morris

The information is shown in the following table:

Educational psychologists per 10,000 pupils—January 1997
Local education authority	Ratio
City of London	0.0
Camden	2.8
Greenwich	3.6
Hackney	3.7
Hammersmith and Fulham	3.2
Islington	4.0
Kensington and Chelsea	4.2
Lambeth	4.2
Lewisham	3.4
Southwark	3.2
Tower Hamlets	3.8
Wandsworth	3.2
Westminster	3.0
Barking and Dagenham	4.6
Barnet	3.1
Bexley	2.9
Brent	2.5
Bromley	2.4
Croydon	1.9
Ealing	2.7
Enfield	3.2
Haringey	4.3
Harrow	2.7
Havering	2.1
Hillingdon	2.7
Hounslow	2.6
Kingston upon Thames	2.1
Merton	2.4
Newham	2.7
Redbridge	1.9
Richmond upon Thames	2.1
Sutton	1.9
Waltham Forest	3.6
Birmingham	2.0
Coventry	2.5
Dudley	2.1
Sandwell	2.6
Solihull	2.4
Walsall	2.1
Wolverhampton	2.6
Knowsley	2.9
Liverpool	1.8
St. Helens	1.9
Sefton	1.9
Wirral	2.2
Bolton	1.7
Bury	2.4
Manchester	2.2
Oldham	1.5
Rochdale	2.2
Salford	2.4
Stockport	2.4
Tameside	2.0
Trafford	1.3
Wigan	2.3
Barnsley	1.1
Doncaster	2.0
Rotherham	2.5
Sheffield	2.2
Bradford	1.9
Calderdale	2.3
Kirklees	3.2
Leeds	1.2
Wakefield	1.7
Gateshead	2.8
Newcastle upon Tyne	2.7
North Tyneside	2.0
South Tyneside	2.2
Sunderland	2.2

Educational psychologists Per 10,000 Pupils—January 1997
Local education authority	Ratio
Isles of Scilly	0.0
Bath and NE Somerset	1.7
City of Bristol	2.3
North Somerset	2.1
South Gloucestershire	1.6
Hartlepool	1.9
Middlesbrough	1.8
Redcar and Cleveland	1.9
Stockton on Tees	2.4
City of Kingston upon Hull	1.7
East Riding of Yorkshire	1.6
North East Lincolnshire	1.4
North Lincolnshire	1.5
North Yorkshire	1.4
York	2.5
Bedfordshire	1.6
Berkshire	1.5
Buckinghamshire	2.2
Cambridgeshire	1.7
Cheshire	1.6
Cornwall	1.7
Cumbria	2.1
Derbyshire	1.9
Devon	2.0
Dorset	1.9
Durham	2.3
East Sussex	1.7
Essex	2.5
Gloucestershire	0.9
Hampshire	2.1
Hereford and Worcester	1.9
Hertfordshire	1.8
Isle of Wight	2.0
Kent	2.0
Lancashire	2.1
Leicestershire	1.7
Lincolnshire	1.9
Norfolk	1.9
Northamptonshire	2.1
Northumberland	1.7
Nottinghamshire	1.9
Oxfordshire	1.8
Shropshire	1.8
Somerset	2.0
Staffordshire	1.6
Suffolk	1.5
Surrey	1.9
Warwickshire	1.8
West Sussex	2.0
Wiltshire	1.4
Total	2.1