HC Deb 22 April 2004 vol 420 c639W
Simon Hughes

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many(a) primary and (b) secondary school pupils in Greater London live more than three miles from the school they attend, broken down by local education authority. [165838]

Mr. Miliband

[holding answer 19 April 2004]: The information requested is shown in the table.

Numbers of pupils living more than three miles11 from the maintained primary and secondary schools2 that they attend— January 2003
Primary Secondary
Number of pupils Percentage of pupils Number of pupils Percentage of pupils
Barking and Dagenham 269 1.4 662 5.7
Barnet 847 3.3 5,571 26.4
Bexley 450 2.1 2,230 12.6
Brent 1,034 4.5 2,291 14.1
Bromley 748 3.1 4,113 18.8
Camden 226 2.0 1,253 13.0
City of London 30 13.5 n/a
City of Westminister 487 4.6 1,841 22.1
Croydon 844 2.7 2,889 15.6
Ealing 459 1.7 1,550 9.9
Enfield 725 2.7 2,982 14.1
Greenwich 359 1.7 1,786 12.2
Hackney 270 1.5 312 3.9
Hammersmith and Fulham 218 2.2 1,940 26.5
Haringey 364 1.7 671 6.2
Harrow 576 2.9 889 9.9
Havering 734 3.6 2,712 16.6
Hillingdon 625 2.5 2,159 12.4
Hounslow 450 2.3 2,774 16.8
Islington 250 1.7 699 9.0
Kensington and Chelsea 292 4.2 736 20.7
Kingston upon Thames 204 1.7 1,615 17.8
Lambeth 460 2.3 1,224 16.5
Lewisham 348 1.5 1,191 10.2
Merton 229 1.6 1,264 14.8
Newham 237 0.8 612 3.4
Redbridge 580 2.4 2.194 11.1
Richmond upon Thames 227 1.8 1,016 13.7
Southwark 324 1.4 1,016 9.4
Sutton 215 1.4 2.322 15.1
Tower Hamlets 388 1.8 682 4.7
Waltham Forest 346 1.6 582 4.2
Wandsworth 562 3.2 1,568 15.5
Greater London total 14,379 2.3 55,346 13.2
1 Distances calculated are straight line
2 includes middle schools as deemed
Source: Pupil Level Annual Schools' Census