HC Deb 20 July 1999 vol 335 c460W
Dan Norris

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many children aged five to seven years in(a) Bath and North-East Somerset and (b) South Gloucestershire were in classes of 30 or fewer in each year from 1992 to date. [91155]

Ms Estelle Morris

The available information is shown in the table.

The Government have pledged to reduce infant class sizes so that no 5, 6 or 7-year-old is in an infant class of more than 30 pupils. The number of infants in classes larger than 30 has already been reduced by some 130,000 between January 1998 and January 1999.

Numbers of pupils in key stage 1 classes of 30 pupils or less taught by one teacher in maintained primary schools in Bath and North East Somerset and South Gloucestershire local education authority areas: January 1996–99 (provisional)
Bath and North East Somerset classes of size South Gloucestershire classes of size
1–30 all 1–30 all
1996 3,689 4,789 5,460 8,821
1997 4,025 4,977 5,279 9,031
1998 4,118 5,329 5,931 9,322
19991 4,163 5,182 8,050 9,452
1 Provisional

Source:

Annual Schools' Census