§ Mr. FieldTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many net child care places were 413W created in the financial year 1999–2000 in (a) the parliamentary constituency of Birkenhead and (b) the parliamentary constituencies in the Wirral. [128911]
§ Ms Hodge[holding answer 4 July 2000]: The number of child care places created are as follows:
- (a) Constituency of Birkenhead: 49 net places1
- (b) Constituencies of the Wirral: 368 net places
1The figure for Birkenhead does not include child minder places as these are not broken to constituency level. A proportion of the 120 net child minder places in the Wirral area may be in the constituency of Birkenhead.
§ Fiona MactaggartTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will list new children places created in each early years development and child care partnership in 1999–2000. [129991]
§ Ms HodgeEarly years development and child care partnerships have reported that by end March 2000 they had created some 140,000 new child care places. These 140,000 to the stock of child care places across England, Providing child care for over 141,000 extra children. Attached is a breakdown of the number of new child care places created by early years development and child care partnerships in 1999–2000.
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1999–2000 New places Partnership Area Out of school Pre-school Total Barking and Dagenham 335 151 486 Barnet 1,247 642 1,889 Barnsley 140 190 330 Bath and North East Somerset 137 233 370 Bedfordshire 756 303 1,059 Bexley 204 252 456 Birmingham 848 806 1,654 Blackburn UA 205 178 383 Blackpool UA 226 102 328 Bolton 459 280 739 Bournemouth UA 253 245 498 Bracknell Forest UA 9,581 116 9,697 Bradford 620 235 855 Brent 636 331 967 Brighton and Hove UA 321 225 546 Bromley 622 422 1,044 Buckinghamshire 1,022 831 1,853 Bury 370 212 582 Calderdale 115 289 404 Cambridgeshire 1,341 1,151 2,492 Camden 96 113 209 Cheshire 948 686 1,634 City of Bristol 247 406 653 City of Kingston upon Hull 206 303 509 City of London 267 20 287 Cornwall 816 430 1,246 Coventry 552 481 1,033 Croydon 357 407 764 Cumbria 254 213 467 Darlington UA 194 86 280 Derby UA 668 142 810 Derbyshire 664 94 758 Devon 1,123 1,148 2,271 Doncaster 205 127 332 Dorset 173 174 347 Dudley 180 105 285 Durham 707 569 1,276
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1999–2000 New places Partnership Area Out of school Pre-school Total Ealing 338 548 886 East Riding of Yorkshire 1,325 381 1,706 East Sussex 352 355 707 Enfield 194 428 622 Essex 2,072 1,472 3,544 Gateshead1 TBC TBC TBC Gloucestershire1 TBC TBC TBC Greenwich 911 63 974 Hackney 257 282 539 Halton UA 170 105 275 Hammersmith and Fulham 115 83 198 Hampshire 3,458 1,854 5,312 Haringey 800 280 1,080 Harrow 238 115 353 Hartlepool UA 96 44 140 Havering 98 45 143 Herefordshire, County of 590 228 818 Hertfordshire 1,224 892 2,116 Hillingdon 240 372 612 Hounslow 262 97 359 Isle of Wight 312 146 458 Isles of Scilly 24 21 45 Islington 469 163 632 Kensington and Chelsea 134 113 247 Kent 1,818 806 2,624 Kingston upon Thames 484 348 832 Kirklees 524 462 986 Knowsley 234 145 379 Lambeth 927 307 1,234 Lancashire 1,581 1,479 3,060 Leeds 1,538 974 2,512 Leicester UA 2,664 200 2,864 Leicestershire 686 1,030 1,716 Lewisham 324 56 380 Lincolnshire 757 235 992 Liverpool 426 434 860 Luton UA 249 212 461 Manchester 275 353 628 Medway (Rochester and Gillingham) 853 352 1,205 Merton 111 145 256 Middlesborough 309 84 393 Milton Keynes UA 353 498 851 Newcastle upon Tyne 364 242 606 Newham 606 99 705 Norfolk 266 381 647 NE Lincolnshire 45 86 131 North Lincolnshire UA 94 143 237 North Somerset 836 230 1,066 North Tyneside 186 293 479 North Yorkshire 1,230 729 1,959 Northamptonshire 814 972 1,786 Northumberland 179 129 308 Nottingham UA 242 291 533 Nottinghamshire 1,138 1,278 2,416 Oldham 202 65 267 Oxfordshire 837 1,095 1,932 Peterborough UA 659 101 760 Plymouth 656 410 1,066 Poole UA 52 92 144 Portsmouth UA 389 246 635 Reading UA 53 0 53 Redbridge 191 14 205 Redcar and Cleveland UA 188 64 252
1999–2000 New places Partnership Area Out of school Pre-school Total Richmond upon Thames 181 149 330 Rochdale 310 182 492 Rotherham 597 230 827 Rutland UA 116 107 223 Salford 609 350 959 Sandwell1 TBC TBC TBC Sefton 255 68 323 Sheffield 700 434 1,134 Shropshire 256 279 535 Slough UA 52 4 56 Solihull 431 315 746 Somerset 551 729 1,280 South Gloucestershire 270 169 439 South Tyneside 89 196 285 Southampton UA 128 519 647 Southend UA 125 129 254 Southwark 683 330 1,013 St. Helens 64 0 64 Staffordshire 2,388 350 2,738 Stockport 283 220 503 Stockton-on-Tees UA 131 396 527 Stoke-on-Trent 158 270 428 Suffolk 696 348 1,044 Sunderland 388 360 748 Surrey 1,321 551 1,872 Sutton 139 121 260 Tameside 269 262 530 Swindon (Thamesdown) 215 500 715 Telford and Wrekin UA 309 583 892 Thurrock UA 135 75 210 Torbay UA 196 143 339 Tower Hamlets 120 142 262 Trafford 628 225 853 Wakefield 330 202 532 Walsall 493 386 879 Waltham Forest 112 343 455 Wandsworth 227 0 227 Warrington UA 447 454 901 Warwickshire 423 341 764 West Berkshire (Newbury) 471 189 660 West Sussex 770 589 1,359 Westminster 119 301 420 Wigan 305 380 685 Wiltshire 832 783 1,615 Windsor and Maidenhead UA 951 144 1,095 Wirral 511 296 807 Wokingham UA 217 335 552 Wolverhampton 581 125 706 Worcestershire 1,351 699 2,050 York UA 690 389 1,079 1End year figures for Gateshead, Gloucestershire and Sandwell are to be confirmed.