HC Deb 30 June 1969 vol 786 cc40-2W
Mr. Lomas

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will make a further statement on those London and county boroughs with a population of 50,000 or more where the number of Commonwealth immigrant children exceeds 2 per cent. of all pupils in maintained primary and secondary schools; and if he will differentiate between the two types of school at January. 1968.

Miss Bacon

I welcome this opportunity of correcting certain of the figures which I gave to my hon. Friend in my Answer to his Question of 5th December, 1968. The errors arose in the act of transcribing and subtracting figures from two computer runs. I very much regret any inconvenience which has been caused by the inaccuracies.

The six corrected figures are indicated by an asterisk in the table which follows:

BOROUGHS WITH A POPULATION OF 50,000 OR MORE WHERE IMMIGRANT PUPILS EXCEED TWO PER CENT. OF ALL PUPILS IN MAINTAINED PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS
January, 1968
Percentage
Primary schools Secondary schools Primary and secondary schools
Inner London Boroughs
Hammersmith 18.7 12.5 16.2
Kensington and Chelsea 18.7 16.8 17.9
Camden 19.2 15.4 17.5
Westminster 20.6 12.4 17.0
Islington 25.5 20.0 23.4
Hackney 26.2 19.6 23.6
Tower Hamlets and City of
London 10.7 7.1 9.3
Greenwich 4.4 3.9 4.2
Lewisham 14.8 8.5 12.3
Southwark 13.7 11.3 12.7
Lambeth 22.0 16.4 19.9
Wandsworth 17.6 12.0 15.1
Outer London Boroughs
Barnet 7.6 4.8 6.4
Brent 27.2 21.4 25.1
Bromley 2.0 2.0 2.0
Croydon 7.9 6.6 7.4
Ealing 17.3 14.6 16.3
Enfield 6.4 4.7 5.7
Haringey 30.8 21.1 27.1
Harrow 3.5 2.6 3.1
Hillingdon 2.5 2.2 2.3
Hounslow 8.0 7.7 7.9

Percentage
Primary schools Secondary schools Primary and secondary schools
Merton 6.9 3.6 5.5
Newham 13.1 10.0 11.9
Redbridge 4.3 3.7 4.1
Richmond upon Thames 3.3 2.6 3.0
Waltham Forest 9.8 7.2 8.7
County Boroughs
Bath 2.7 1.3 2.1
Birmingham 9.7* 8.2* 9.1*
Blackburn 6.9 4.9 6.2
Bolton 4.7 5.2 4.9
Bradford 7.5 9.2 8.2
Bristol 3.9 2.8 3.5
Burton-upon-Trent 3.2 2.5 2.9
Coventry 6.3* 6.8* 6.5
Derby 11.4 8.2 10.0
Dewsbury 4.2 5.3 4.7
Dudley 2.8 2.6 2.7
Gloucester 4.8 3.3 4.2
Huddersfield 11.4 7.6 9.8
Ipswich 4.0 2.7 3.5
Leeds 4.4 3.8 4.2
Leicester 10.1 9.7 9.9
Luton 7.3 6.0* 6.9
Manchester 5.2 4.0 4.7
Northampton 3.8 2.2 3.2
Nottingham 8.5 5.7 7.4
Oldham 2.1 2.4 2.2
Oxford 6.8 4.8 6.1
Preston 7.7 6.7 7.3
Reading 6.8 5.2 6.2
Rochdale 4.4 4.2 4.3
Sheffield 2.6 1.9 2.3
Southampton 2.5 1.6 2.1
Walsall 6.2 6.7 6.4
Warley 9.7 9.3 9.6
West Bromwich 5.6 4.9 5.3
Wolverhampton 13.2* 9.7 11.8