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Mr. Alison
Figures of annual expenditure on playgroup provision for each local authority are not readily available.
247WAt 31st December, 1970, the number of children in each local authority area for whom playgroup provision was available was as follows:
| English County Councils |
| Bedford |
3,636 |
| Berkshire |
4,166 |
| Buckinghamshire |
4,639 |
| Cambridge and Isle of Ely |
1,554 |
| Chester |
6,559 |
| Cornwall |
2,550 |
| Cumberland |
1,011 |
| Derby |
3,213 |
| Devon |
2,944 |
| Dorset |
3,148 |
| Durham |
2,785 |
| Essex |
10,379 |
| Gloucester |
4,841 |
| Hampshire |
11,111 |
| Herefordshire |
618 |
| Hertfordshire |
8,540 |
| Huntingdonshire and Peterborough |
1,290 |
| Isles of Scilly |
— |
| Isle of Wight |
604 |
| Kent |
10,491 |
| Lancashire |
7,014 |
| Leicester |
3,074 |
| Lincolnshire (Holland) |
734 |
| Lincolnshire (Kesteven) |
1,360 |
| Lincolnshire (Lindsey) |
2,329 |
| Norfolk |
2,972 |
| Northampton |
2,525 |
| Northumberland |
2,108 |
| Nottingham |
3,689 |
| Oxford |
2,219 |
| Rutland |
109 |
| Salop |
1,501 |
| Somerset |
2,294 |
| Stafford |
3,572 |
| Suffolk East |
1,364 |
| Suffolk West |
1,449 |
| Surrey |
9,349 |
| Sussex East |
3,737 |
| Sussex West |
4,286 |
| Warwick |
5,819 |
| Westmorland |
404 |
| Wiltshire |
2,510 |
| Worcester |
3,205 |
| Yorkshire, East Riding |
1,727 |
| Yorkshire, North Riding |
1,531 |
| Yorkshire, West Riding |
7,786 |
| Total English County Councils |
162,746 |
| English County Boroughs |
| Barnsley |
100 |
| Barrow-in-Furness |
194 |
| Bath |
589 |
| Birkenhead |
765 |
| Birmingham |
3,810 |
| Blackburn |
— |
| Blackpool |
398 |
| Bolton |
368 |
| Bootle |
322 |
| Bournemouth |
697 |
| Bradford |
930 |
| Brighton |
794 |
| Bristol |
2,552 |
| Burnley |
116 |
| Burton-on-Trent |
189 |
| Bury |
410 |
| Canterbury |
232 |
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| English County Boroughs—(contd.) |
| Carlisle |
415 |
| Chester |
322 |
| Coventry |
1,623 |
| Darlington |
189 |
| Derby |
931 |
| Dewsbury |
45 |
| Doncaster |
179 |
| Dudley |
541 |
| Eastbourne |
270 |
| Exeter |
585 |
| Gateshead |
292 |
| Gloucester |
482 |
| Great Yarmouth |
260 |
| Grimsby |
362 |
| Halifax |
156 |
| Hastings |
323 |
| Huddersfield |
640 |
| Ipswich |
672 |
| Kingston-upon-Hull |
568 |
| Leeds |
2,082 |
| Leicester |
528 |
| Lincoln |
432 |
| Liverpool |
2,946 |
| Luton |
728 |
| Manchester |
973 |
| Teeside |
1,259 |
| Newcastle-upon-Tyne |
726 |
| Northampton |
523 |
| Norwich |
737 |
| Nottingham |
670 |
| Oldham |
302 |
| Oxford |
541 |
| Plymouth |
1,798 |
| Portsmouth |
1,540 |
| Preston |
387 |
| Reading |
317 |
| Rochdale |
442 |
| Rotherham |
395 |
| Salford |
358 |
| Sheffield |
2,318 |
| Warley |
350 |
| Solihull |
575 |
| Southampton |
1,058 |
| Southend-on-Sea |
1,386 |
| Southport |
230 |
| South Shields |
235 |
| Torbay |
296 |
| Stockport |
1,246 |
| Stoke-on-Trent |
309 |
| Sunderland |
331 |
| St Helens |
344 |
| Tynemouth |
186 |
| Wakefield |
164 |
| Wallasey |
308 |
| Walsall |
610 |
| Warrington |
10 |
| West Bromwich |
290 |
| Hartlepool |
855 |
| Wigan |
126 |
| Wolverhampton |
1,206 |
| Worcester |
364 |
| York |
514 |
| Total English County Boroughs |
52,316 |
| Greater London Council New London Boroughs |
| Barking |
564 |
| Barnet |
2,484 |
| Bexley |
1,447 |
| Brent |
1,387 |
| Bromley |
3,730 |
| Camden |
556 |
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| Greater London Council New London Boroughs—(contd.) |
| Croydon |
3,157 |
| Ealing |
1,441 |
| Enfield |
1,975 |
| Greenwich |
1,007 |
| Hackney |
265 |
| Hammersmith |
30 |
| Haringey |
786 |
| Harrow |
2,199 |
| Havering |
1,838 |
| Hillingdon |
1,816 |
| Hounslow |
745 |
| Islington |
680 |
| Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea |
305 |
| Royal Borough of Kingston-upon-Thames |
1,195 |
| Lambeth |
1,374 |
| Lewisham |
1,341 |
| Merton |
1,130 |
| Newham |
949 |
| Redbridge |
3,100 |
| Richmond-upon-Thames |
2,112 |
| Southwark |
899 |
| Sutton |
1,106 |
| Tower Hamlets |
447 |
| Waltham Forest |
1,405 |
| Wandsworth |
1,152 |
| City of Westminster |
1,163 |
| City of London |
— |
| Total of New London Boroughs (33) plus Greater London Council |
43,785 |
| TOTALS: |
| English County Councils |
162,746 |
| English County Boroughs |
52,316 |
| London Boroughs |
43,785 |
| OVERALL TOTAL |
258,847 |