HC Deb 18 June 1964 vol 696 cc212-3W
55. Mr. E. Johnson

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science, how many children, up to the normal school-leaving age, were attending schools in Manchester at the beginning of 1951, 1959 and 1964, respectively; and how many teachers were employed at those schools on those dates.

Mr. Hogg

The number of pupils aged under 15, in maintained primary and secondary schools in Manchester, was 97,000 in January, 1951, 110,000 in 1959 and 102,000 in 1963. Figures for 1964 are not yet available. The number of teachers in these schools was 3,500 in 1951 and 4,250 both in 1959 and 1963.

56. Mr. E. Johnson

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many children over normal school-leaving age were receiving full-time education in Manchester in 1951, 1959 and on the latest convenient date in 1964.

Mr. Hogg

For maintained secondary schools the figures are: 1951, 2,500; 1959, 4,200; 1963, 7,500. 1964 figures are not yet available. The numbers in direct grant schools and in further education establishments have increased also.