HL Deb 20 May 1999 vol 601 cc49-51WA
Lord Peston

asked Her Majesty's Government:

What is the percentage of children in secondary education in private schools per English local education authority and in England as a whole for the latest available year and the two preceding years. [HL2500]

The Minister of State, Department for Education and Employment (Baroness Blackstone)

The information currently available is shown in the table.

Percentage of secondary age pupils being taught in independent schools in England—January of each year.
1996 1997 1998
Hartlepool 0.1 0.1 0.0
Middlesbrough 0.2 0.3 0.3
Redcar and Cleveland 0.0 0.0 0.0
Stockton-on-Tees 7.9 8.0 8.3
Percentage of secondary age pupils being taught in independent schools in England—January of each year.
1996 1997 1998
Darlington 5.6 5.8 5.7
Durham 3.8 3.8 3.8
Northumberland 1.4 1.6 1.6
Gateshead 1.6 1.7 1.7
Newcastle-upon-Tyne 18.4 18.2 18.1
North Tyneside 5.2 5.0 5.0
South Tyneside 0.2 0.2 0.1
Sunderland 2.2 2.3 2.4
NORTH EAST 4.5 4.5 4.5
Cheshire 6.9 6.8 6.9
Cumbria 6.8 6.5 6.6
Bolton 10.8 10.7 10.8
Bury 15.5 14.9 15.1
Manchester 18.5 18.4 18.2
Oldham 6.8 6.7 6.7
Rochdale 0.6 0.7 0.8
Salford 5.5 5.9 6.2
Stockport 13.7 13.7 13.5
Tameside 0.3 0.4 0.5
Trafford 13.1 12.8 2.8
Wigan 0.0 0.0 0.0
Lancashire 6.3 6.2 6.5
NORTH WEST 7.8 7.7 7.4
Knowsley 0.0 0.0 0.0
Liverpool 6.0 6.1 3.7
St. Helens 2.1 2.2 2.3
Sefton 10.9 10.8 10.5
Wirral 5.9 5.9 5.8
MERSEYSIDE 6.0 6.0 5.1
NORTH WEST AND MERSEYSIDE 7.4 7.3 6.9
East Riding of Yorkshire 3.8 3.8 3.5
City of Kingston-Upon-Hull 6.3 6.3 6.2
North East Lincolnshire 1.3 1.3 1.4
North Lincolnshire 0.0 0.0 0.0
York 15.5 15.5 15.7
North Yorkshire 9.1 9.1 8.5
Barnsley 0.2 0.2 0.2
Doncaster 1.1 1.0 0.9
Rotherham 0.2 0.2 0.2
Sheffield 4.2 4.4 4.5
Bradford 6.3 6.2 6.2
Calderdale 4.8 4.7 4.9
Kirklees 5.2 5.4 5.6
Leeds 5.7 5.5 5.6
Wakefield 11.0 10.5 10.3
YORKSHIRE AND HUMBER 5.4 5.4 5.3
Derby 2.7 2.9 2.9
Derbyshire 5.6 5.6 5.5
Leicester City 5.8 6.2 6.3
Rutland 42.1 42.9 43.1
Leicestershire 6.9 7.1 7.2
Lincolnshire 4.7 4.5 4.4
Northamptonshire 7.2 7.1 7.1
Nottinghamshire 4.7 4.6 4.7
EAST MIDLANDS 6.1 6.1 6.1
Hereford and Worcester 13.9 13.8 13.5
Shropshire 11.4 11.2 11.1
Stoke 2.0 2.4 0.0
Staffordshire 4.9 4.7 4.6
Warwickshire 11.6 10.3 10..1
Birmingham 4.8 4.9 4.9
Coventry 8.4 8.2 8.1
Dudley 0.7 0.7 0.7
Sandwell 0.0 0.0 0.0
Solihull 7.0 6.8 6.8
Walsall 0.8 0.8 0.9
Wolverhampton 7.6 7.7 8.0
WEST MIDLANDS 6.8 6.7 6.5
Luton 0.0 0.1 0.2
Bedfordshire 12.5 12.3 11.9
Cambridgeshire 10.6 10.6 11.0
Essex 3.9 3.9 3.8
Percentage of secondary age pupils being taught in independent schools in England—of each year.
1996 1997 1998
Hertfordshire 13.8 13.9 13.9
Norfolk 7.7 7.6 7.5
Suffolk 11.1 10.8 10.6
EASTERN 9.0 8.9 8.9
City of London 100.0 100.0 100.0
Camden 17.3 17.3 17.4
Hackney 11.9 12.4 13.7
Hammersmith and Fulham 28.0 28.0 28.0
Haringey 11.0 10.5 10.7
Islington 2.6 1.9 1.9
Kensington and Chelsea 57.8 57.8 57.3
Lambeth 6.4 6.4 6.4
Lewisham 9.2 9.3 8.4
Newham 0.0 0.0 0.0
Southwark 24.7 24.7 24.3
Tower Hamlets 0.8 1.0 1.0
Wandsworth 15.6 15.9 16.0
Westminster 27.3 28.0 28.1
INNER LONDON 15.9 16.0 15.9
Barking and Dagenham 0.0 0.0 0.0
Barnet 12.0 12.0 12.6
Bexley 0.0 0.0 0.0
Brent 2.3 2.8 3.1
Bromley 10.7 10.2 10.0
Croydon 21.9 22.2 20.5
Ealing 16.0 16.2 16.1
Enfield 1.3 1.2 1.3
Greenwich 8.6 8.7 8.5
Harrow 26.0 26.0 25.2
Havering 0.8 0.7 0.6
Hillingdon 9.7 10.0 10.1
Hounslow 1.7 1.6 1.6
Kingston-upon-Thames 15.9 16.3 16.4
Merton 19.5 19.6 19.3
Redbridge 8.0 7.6 7.6
Richmond-upon-Thames 31.9 33.0 33.7
Sutton 5.1 5.0 4.7
Waltham Forest 9.5 8.3 8.0
OUTER LONDON 10.2 10.2 10.0
LONDON 12.1 12.1 12.0
Berkshire 18.2 17.6 17.3
Milton Keynes 4.0 3.3 3.2
Buckinghamshire 8.2 7.8 9.2
Brighton & Hove 18.8 18.9 18.0
East Sussex 15.9 15.5 13.8
Portsmouth 18.7 17.2 16.8
Southampton 13.3 12.5 12.4
Hampshire 9.3 9.2 9.3
Isle of Wight 7.2 6.4 5.7
Kent 8.2 8.1 8.2
Oxfordshire 20.3 20.5 20.0
Surrey 25.3 25.1 24.9
West Sussex 12.6 12.5 12.5
SOUTH EAST 14.0 13.9 13.7
Bath and NE Somerset 19.5 19.4 18.9
City of Bristol 25.6 25.6 25.6
North Somerset 3.7 3.5 3.4
South Gloucestershire 1.9 1.6 1.4
Cornwall 4.9 4.9 4.7
Isles of Scilly 0.0 0.0 4.2
Devon 9.3 9.0 8.7
Bournemouth 6.6 6.4 6.3
Poole 8.1 8.1 8.6
Dorset 11.3 13.6 13.1
Gloucestershire 11.2 11.0 10.7
Somerset 19.6 19.7 19.3
Swindon 0.3 0.3 0.3
Wiltshire 12.7 12.6 12.5
SOUTH WEST 11.3 11.3 11.1
ENGLAND 9.1 9.0 8.9