§ Mr. CousinsTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will list the number of(a) part-time and full-time pupils in nursery schools, (b) pupils in each year in LEA and LEA supported schools, excluding nursery schools and (c) pupils in each year in private schools in the City of Newcastle upon Tyne in each year from 1995 to 2000. [111050]
§ Ms Estelle Morris[holding answer 22 February 2000]: The January 2000 Annual Schools Census (Form 7) is currently being undertaken and provisional national estimates will be available in April.
Information about pupils is collected in the Annual Schools Census (Form 7) by age not by year group. 146W Tables give the figures by the age of the pupils at the beginning of each school year and have been placed in the Library.