HC Deb 02 February 1999 vol 324 cc559-60W
Mr. Barry Jones

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how many children attend(a) primary and (b) secondary schools in each of the county authorities in Wales. [68358]

Mr. Hain

The information is as follows:

Full and part time pupils in LEA maintained and grant-maintained schools by unitary authority: numbers at January 1998
Unitary authority Primary Secondary
Blaenau Gwent 7,923 4,538
Bridgend 13,188 9,262
Caerphilly 18,978 12,746
Cardiff 31,191 20,884
Carmarthenshire 15,767 12,085
Ceredigion 5,934 4,977
Conwy 10,084 6,888
Denbighshire 9,098 6,713
Flintshire 15,331 10,076
Gwynedd 10,965 7,220
Isle of Anglesey 6,469 4,878
Merthyr Tydfil 6,567 4,673
Monmouthshire 7,656 5,326
Neath Port Talbot 14,347 9,194
Newport 15,015 9,685
Pembrokeshire 11,220 7,966
Powys 11,755 8,289
Rhondda, Cynon, Taff 24,931 18,308
Swansea 22,524 15,432
Torfaen 9,711 7,382
Vale of Glamorgan 12,413 8,312
Wrexham 12,624 7,018
Wales 293,691 201,852

Source:

Schools' Census

In future this will become the responsibility of the National Assembly.