Early Years Education

HC Deb 04 July 2000 vol 353 cc120-3W

Mr. Allan

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will list for(a) England and (b) each local education authority the number of additional free early years education places that would be required to meet the Government's target of free places being available for 66 per cent. of three-year-olds by 2002. [126810]

Ms Hodge

[holding answer 21 June 2000): 190,000 additional new free early years education places for three-year-olds will be made available using the £390 million allocated by the Government. This will allow us to meet the national target of providing 66 per cent. of all three-year-olds in England with a free place.

We are currently seeking to target those children in most social need. To this end different targets have been set with local authorities to reflect their position on the Government's Index of Local Deprivation.

Based upon 1998 participation levels, the table shows the estimated number of new places which would be required in each local education authority area to take the number of free places available in that authority to the national target level of 66 per cent. It also shows our estimate of the percentage of three-year-olds in each area who will have a free place by April 2001.

LEA Name	New Places required to reach national target of 66 per cent.	Percentage of children expected to have free places by April 2001
Barking and Dagenham	0	81.9
Barnet	695	51.0
Barnsley	502	79.3
Bath and North-East Somerset	899	18.9
Bedfordshire	1,986	27.4
Bexley	669	44.9
Birmingham	2,611	88.5
Blackburn with Darwen	557	80.7
Blackpool	850	77.9
Bolton	246	79.7
Bournemouth	851	41.9
Bracknell Forest	984	11.8
Bradford	0	83.3
Brent	494	81.7
Brighton and Hove	907	71.3
Bristol	588	70.5
Bromley	2,022	16.0
Buckinghamshire	3,392	13.2
Bury	602	44.2
Calderdale	416	64.6
Cambridgeshire	3,504	18.7
Camden	518	80.7
Cheshire	2,953	31.3
City of London	2	64.0
Cornwall	2,575	48.7
Coventry	639	81.3
Croydon	1,276	57.4
Cumbria	1,091	48.5
Darlington	0	89.0
Derby	466	72.8
Derbyshire	2,420	40.5
Devon	3,807	17.2
Doncaster	67	80.7
Dorset	2,456	12.3
Dudley	274	60.9
Durham	0	76.9
Ealing	0	79.7
East Riding of Yorkshire	1,546	29.6
East Sussex	3,025	13.0
Enfield	1,235	67.4
Essex	8,740	12.4
Gateshead	266	80.7
Gloucestershire	4,355	12.0
Greenwich	245	84.2
Hackney	739	86.4
Halton	335	80.2
Hammersmith and Fulham	297	80.5

LEA Name	New places required to reach national target of 66 per cent.	Percentage of children expected to have free places by April 2001
Hampshire	9,174	5.8
Haringey	149	83.5
Harrow	1,195	30.1
Hartlepool	0	100.0
Havering	1,158	22.0
Herefordshire	1,056	16.4
Hertfordshire	3,782	39.4
Hillingdon	1,596	37.5
Hounslow	293	76.1
Isle of Wight	695	50.8
Isles of Scilly	13	95.0
Islington	574	82.9
Kensington and Chelsea	601	71.5
Kent	8,884	12.3
Kingston upon Hull	0	82.9
Kingston upon Thames	265	52.9
Kirklees	799	71.7
Knowsley	0	97.3
Lambeth	868	84.9
Lancashire	4,979	44.1
Leeds	27	79.2
Leicester	635	83.1
Leicestershire	4,740	5.8
Lewisham	946	82.9
Lincolnshire	2,886	26.9
Liverpool	0	90.0
Luton	1,059	70.1
Manchester	0	89.9
Medway	1,756	31.9
Merton	0	68.6
Middlesbrough	0	100.0
Milton Keynes	1,676	12.1
Newcastle upon Tyne	225	83.9
Newham	686	88.1
Norfolk	4,000	22.7
North-East Lincolnshire	408	76.5
North Lincolnshire	866	48.6
North Somerset	1,512	8.5
North Tyneside	0	81.8
North Yorkshire	1,774	34.6
Northamptonshire	3,006	31.3
Northumberland	0	68.1
Nottingham	246	84.6
Nottinghamshire	2,126	44.3
Oldham	560	82.5
Oxfordshire	4,581	13.3
Peterborough	1,258	40.7
Plymouth	1,327	63.9
Poole	1,043	7.3
Portsmouth	1,071	64.9
Reading	613	43.7
Redbridge	1,221	56.0
Redcar and Cleveland	0	100.0
Richmond upon Thames	771	30.5
Rochdale	427	82.4
Rotherham	802	78.0
Rutland	223	12.3
Salford	0	82.7
Sandwell	0	88.0
Sefton	227	73.7
Sheffield	1,535	82.0
Shropshire	1,618	16.8
Slough	487	51.8
Solihull	158	61.1
Somerset	3,185	10.9
South Gloucestershire	1,704	12.4
South Tyneside	0	80.5
Southampton	1,369	73.8
Southend-on-Sea	1,044	44.8
Southwark	221	85.4
St. Helens	443	78.5
Staffordshire	3,672	30.2
Stockport	831	44.4
Stockton-on-Tees	0	100.0

LEA Name	New places required to reach national target of 66 per cent	Percentage of children expected to have expected to have free places by April 2001
Stoke-on-Trent	34	79.0
Suffolk	4,857	13.7
Sunderland	0	83.2
Surrey	6,053	19.8
Sutton	1,264	13.2
Swindon	1,217	19.1
Tameside	258	77.7
Telford and Wrekin	901	66.6
Thurrock	913	46.8
Torbay	533	50.3
Tower Hamlets	0	85.9
Trafford	98	64.4
Wakefield	153	76.4
Walsall	0	91.1
Waltham Forest	1,058	80.7
Wandsworth	1,083	78.8
Warrington	792	36.3
Warwickshire	2,508	25.8
West Berkshire	982	14.5
West Sussex	4,529	12.3
Westminster	692	76.0
Wigan	1,326	66.3
Wiltshire	3,265	9.5
Windsor and Maidenhead	815	19.8
Wirral	963	77.7
Wokingham	1,122	7.9
Wolverhampton	0	83.9
Worcestershire	2,930	23.0
York	625	38.0