HC Deb 17 July 2002 vol 389 cc375-8W
Mr. Coleman

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what proportion of children speak English as an additional language in each(a) Government office region and (b) local education authority. [68903]

Mr. Miliband

The information requested is shown in the table.

Maintained Primary and Secondary schools: Number of pupils for whom English is an additional language by local education authority—January 2001
Percentage of pupils for whom English is an additional language1
Primary schools Secondary schools
England 9.3 8.0
North East 2.5 1.8
Darlington 1.8 1.4
Durham 1.0 0.5
Gateshead 1.5 1.0
Hartlepool 0.8 0.5
Middlesbrough 6.8 6.3
Newcastle upon Tyne 9.6 7.2
North Tyneside 1.3 1.3
Northumberland 0.7 0.4
Redcar and Cleveland 1.1 1.0
South Tyneside 1.7 1.5
Stockton-on-Tees 2.4 1.7
Sunderland 1.9 1.1
North West 6.0 4.8
Blackburn with Darwen 29.3 23.2
Blackpool 0.8 0.9
Bolton 12.4 10.1
Bury 7.1 6.8
Cheshire 0.8 0.7
Cumbria 0.3 0.5
Halton 0.3 0.2
Knowsley 0.3 0.2
Lancashire 6.8 5.9
Liverpool 3.5 2.4
Manchester 18.7 16.8
Oldham 20.5 15.4
Rochdale 15.8 15.4
Salford 2.4 1.4
Sefton 0.7 0.5
St. Helens 0.5 0.2
Stockport 3.1 2.3
Tameside 5.5 5.5
Trafford 7.6 6.
Warrington 1.3 1.2
Wigan 0.6 0.3
Wirral 0.7 0.6
Yorkshire and the Humber 7.8 6.8
Barnsley 0.4 0.1
Bradford 30.0 29.4
Calderdale 8.2 8.5
Doncaster 1.6 1.3
East Riding of Yorkshire 0.6 0.3
Kington Upon Hull, City of 1.5 0.8
Kirklees 18.0 14.8
Leeds 8.3 7.4
North East Lincolnshire 0.7 0.6
North Lincolnshire 2.7 1.8
North Yorkshire 0.6 0.5
Rotherham 4.4 3.7
Sheffield 9.5 7.1
Wakefield 2.2 1.8
York 1.5 1.0
East Midlands 5.8 5.5
Derby 11.5 11.1
Derbyshire 0.5 0.5
Leicester 38.4 39.3
Leicestershire 5.1 6.4
Lincolnshire 0.7 0.8
Northamptonshire 2.8 3.5
Nottingham 11.1 8.9
Nottinghamshire 1.4 1.4
Rutland 0.7 0.6
West Midlands 11.6 10.5
Birmingham 30.8 28.9
Coventry 14.5 14.4

Maintained Primary and Secondary schools: Number of pupils for whom English is an additional language by local education authority—January 2001
Percentage of pupils for whom English is an additional language1
Primary schools Secondary schools
Dudley 6.3 5.8
Herefordshire 0.5 0.6
Sandwell 18.2 19.2
Shropshire 0.6 0.7
Solihull 3.2 2.5
Staffordshire 1.8 1.6
Stoke-on-Trent 6.8 6.1
Telford and Wrekin 3.9 3.9
Walsall 14.2 13.0
Warwickshire 3.7 3.8
Wolverhampton 15.6 18.4
Worcestershire 2.2 2.2
East of England 4.3 3.9
Bedfordshire 6.5 5.6
Cambridgeshire 3.0 2.4
Essex 1.6 1.7
Hertfordshire 5.2 5.0
Luton 28.2 29.7
Norfolk 1.0 0.6
Peterborough 14.4 13.1
Southend-on-Sea 4.5 2.9
Suffolk 1.2 0.8
Thurrock 3.1 2.4
London 31.8 29.2
Inner London 46.0 42.3
Camden 46.6 31.8
City of London 48.0 0.0
Hackney 54.4 50.9
Hammersmith and Fulham 36.1 31.6
Haringey 49.3 43.1
Islington 34.1 40.0
Kensington and Chelsea 39.7 37.5
Lambeth 41.7 35.6
Lewi sham 28.6 24.2
Newham 60.2 53.4
Southwark 38.7 43.4
Tower Hamlets 66.5 62.0
Wandsworth 31.2 30.0
Westminster 60.0 48.7
Outer London 24.0 23.3
Barking and Dagenham 9.9 9.4
Barnet 31.0 27.2
Bexley 6.6 6.2
Brent 51.4 57.9
Bromley 3.9 4.3
Croydon 16.4 16.6
Ealing 44.8 46.1
Enfield 29.3 25.0
Greenwich 20.7 19.7
Harrow 38.9 38.8
Havering 2.1 1.8
Hillingdon 19.2 18.0
Hounslow 39.4 44.9
Kingston upon Thames 16.0 14.7
Merton 23.6 16.6
Redbridge 40.2 42.4
Richmond upon Thames 9.2 8.3
Sutton 7.0 7.9
Waltham Forest 32.5 31.1
South East 4.1 3.8
Bracknell Forest 2.9 1.7
Brighton and Hove 3.9 2.8
Buckinghamshire 8.7 7.1
East Sussex 1.5 1.2
Hampshire 1.2 1.0
Isle of Wight 0.7 0.5
Kent 2.5 2.4

Maintained Primary and Secondary schools: Number of pupils for whom English is an additional language by local education authority—January 2001
Percentage of pupils for whom English is an additional language1
Primary schools Secondary schools
Medway 3.7 3.2
Milton Keynes 6.3 6.5
Oxfordshire 3.9 4.8
Portsmouth 4.0 3.6
Reading 10.7 9.5
Slough 36.3 35.0
Southampton 7.5 6.7
Surrey 3.9 3.7
West Berkshire 1.4 1.0
West Sussex 3.1 2.5
Windsor and Maidenhead 9.5 10.6
Wokingham 3.7 5.2
South West 1.4 1.0
Bath and North East Somerset 1.3 0.9
Bournemouth 2.9 1.0
Bristol, City of 5.6 4.7
Cornwall 0.4 0.3
Devon 0.7 0.4
Dorset 0.6 0.4
Gloucestershire 1.5 1.4
Isles of Scilly 2 2
North Somerset 0.7 0.7
Plymouth 1.2 0.9
Poole 1.1 0.2
Somerset 0.5 0.4
South Gloucestershire 1.1 1.1
Swindon 3.1 2.7
Torbay 0.7 0.7
Wiltshire 0.7 0.9
1 The number of pupils for whom English is an additional language expressed as a percentage of the number of pupils of compulsory school age. 2Less than 5 pupils