HC Deb 22 January 2001 vol 361 cc442-3W
Miss McIntosh

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many children in(a) primary school and (b) secondary school education there were on (i) 1 January 1997, (ii) 1 January 2000 and (iii) 1 January 2001 in North Yorkshire. [146229]

Ms Estelle Morris

The available information on children educated in maintained primary and maintained secondary schools in North Yorkshire is shown in the following table.

Maintained primary1 Maintained secondary1
January 1997 47,924 37,039
January 2000 48,761 39,349
1 Headcount of pupils

Information for January 2001 is currently being collected. Provisional estimates will be published later this year.