HC Deb 28 January 1999 vol 324 cc402-4W
Mr. Jenkins

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will estimate, for each local authority, the total number of pupils attending maintained schools. [67654]

Ms Estelle Morris

[holding answer 26 January 1999]: The information requested is shown in the table.

Number (headcount) of pupils in maintained nursery, primary,

secondary and special schools 1—January 1998. By local

education authority area, by government office region in England

Headcount
England 7,680,691
North East 435,289
Hartlepool 17,125
Middlesbrough 26,042
Redcar and Cleveland 26,767
Stockton-on-Tees 33,556
Darlington 16,468
Durham 82,028
Northumberland 52,493
Gateshead 30,709
Newcastle-upon-Tyne 40,731
North Tyneside 32,177
South Tyneside 26,625
Sunderland 50,568

Number (headcount) of pupils in maintained nursery, primary,

secondary and special schools 1—January 1998. By local

education authority area, by government office region in England

Headcount
North West and Merseyside 1,153,328
North West 905,154
Cheshire 161,746
Cumbria 78,514
Bolton 47,329
Bury 29,621
Manchester 70,669
Oldham 42,135
Rochdale 37,144
Salford 37,030
Stockport 44,360
Tameside 38,775
Trafford 36,505
Wigan 51,417
Lancashire 229,909
Merseyside 248,174
Knowsley 30,125
Liverpool 82,831
St. Helens 30,509
Sefton 48,461
Wirral 56,248
Yorkshire and Humber 831,840
East Riding of Yorkshire 49,248
City of Kingston-Upon-Hull 44,214
North East Lincolnshire 28,832
North Lincolnshire 25,607
York 24,723
North Yorkshire 87,100
Barnsley 35,512
Doncaster 52,799
Rotherham 46,229
Sheffield 75,857
Bradford 90,025
Calderdale 35,022
Kirklees 65,287
Leeds 117,242
Wakefield 54,143
East Midlands 663,962
Derby 38,180
Derbyshire 114,043
Leicester City 49,825
Rutland 4,777
Leicestershire 92,002
Lincolnshire 96,933
Northamptonshire 103,135
Nottinghamshire 165,067
West Midlands 887,535
Hereford and Worcester 104,992
Shropshire 65,679
Stoke 40,181
Staffordshire 134,034
Warwickshire 76,063
Birmingham 180,977
Coventry 51,420
Dudley 51,000
Sandwell 52,843
Solihull 37,063
Walsall 50,182
Wolverhampton 43,101
Eastern 821,450
Luton 31,857
Bedfordshire 63,340
Cambridgeshire 104,928
Essex 240,839
Hertfordshire 170,473
Norfolk 110,840
Suffolk 99,173

Number (headcount) of pupils in maintained nursery, primary,

secondary and special schools 1—January 1998. By local

education authority area, by government office region in England

Headcount
London 1,031,805
Inner London 356,905
City of London 204
Camden 22,638
Hackney 25,901
Hammersmith and Fulham 16,485
Haringey 32,624
Islington 24,331
Kensington and Chelsea 10,403
Lambeth 27,595
Lewisham 34,073
Newham 46,261
Southwark 33,815
Tower Hamlets 36,630
Wandsworth 28,183
Westminster 17,762
Outer London 674,900
Barking and Dagenham 28,534
Barnet 47,250
Bexley 38,714
Brent 36,875
Bromley 44,133
Croydon 47,956
Ealing 42,539
Enfield 46,134
Greenwich 36,618
Harrow 28,587
Havering 36,146
Hillingdon 38,630
Hounslow 35,388
Kingston-upon-Thames 20,133
Merton 24,274
Redbridge 39,652
Richmond-upon-Thames 20,089
Sutton 28,101
Waltham Forest 35,147
South East 1,146,419
Berkshire 120,265
Milton Keynes 34,502
Buckinghamshire 74,460
Brighton and Hove 30,168
East Sussex 64,883
Portsmouth 26,241
Southampton 30,928
Hampshire 174,064
Isle of Wight 19,064
Kent 248,843
Oxfordshire 84,101
Surrey 135,322
West Sussex 103,578
South West 709,063
Bath and NE Somerset 25,137
City of Bristol 52,586
North Somerset 27,057
South Gloucestershire 38,834
Cornwall 72,948
Isles of Scilly 261
Devon 154,172
Bournemouth 21,201
Poole 19,901
Dorset 53,039
Gloucestershire 83,496
Somerset 68,671
Swindon 29,190
Wiltshire 62,570
1 Figures include Primary, Secondary and Special GM Schools

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