§ Miss Lestorasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what, for each local 361W authority in England and Wales, were the numbers of children for whom playgroup provision was available in March 1972 and at the latest available date.
§ Mr. AlisonAt 31st March 1972, the latest date for which figures are available, the number of children in each local authority area in England for whom provision of this type was available was as follows:
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ENGLISH COUNTY COUNCILS Bedford 3,125 Berkshire 4,188 Buckinghamshire 5,735 Cambridge and Isle of Ely 2,228 Cheshire 10,510 Cornwall 3,057 Cumberland 1,228 Derby 3,903 Devon 3,473 Dorset 2,105 Durham 4,341 Essex 11,011 Gloucester 4,739 Hampshire 9,879 Herefordshire 892 Hertfordshire 9,138 Huntingdonshire and Peterborough 1,605 Isles of Scilly — Isle of Wight 703 Kent 12,993 Lancashire 8,475 Leicester 3,960 Lincolnshire (Holland) 599 Lincolnshire (Kesteven) 1,215 Lincolnshire (Lindsey) 2,156 Norfolk 3,519 Northampton 3,113 Northumberland 1,934 Nottingham 4,203 Oxford 2,560 Rutland 182 Salop 2,152 Somerset 4,491 Stafford 4,831 Suffolk, East 1,692 Suffolk, West 1,789 Surrey 9,762 Sussex, East 4,343 Sussex, West 5,772 Warwick 6,445 Westmorland 544 Wiltshire 2,661 Worcester 3,674 Yorkshire, East Riding 1,722 Yorkshire, North Riding 1,737 Yorkshire, West Riding 9,089 Total English County Councils 187,482 ENGLISH COUNTY BOROUGHS Barnsley — Barrow-in-Furness 210 Bath 682 Birkenhead 1,048 Birmingham 3,821 Blackburn 380 Blackpool 581 Bolton 650 Bootle 295 363W
Bournemouth 943 Bradford 910 Brighton 794 Bristol 2,697 Burnley 120 Burton-on-Trent 280 Bury 466 Canterbury 273 Carlisle 485 Chester 315 Coventry 2,150 Darlington 236 Derby 1,048 Dewsbury 113 Doncaster 279 Dudley 609 Eastbourne 270 Exeter 656 Gateshead 471 Gloucester 586 Great Yarmouth 285 Grimsby 298 Halifax 120 Hastings 492 Huddersfield 715 Ipswich 629 Kingston-upon-Hull 810 Leeds 1,957 Leicester 1,013 Lincoln 377 Liverpoo 2,770 Luton 1,011 Manchester 1,051 Teesside 1,654 Newcastle-upon-Tyne 665 Northampton 758 Norwich 904 Nottingham 832 Oldham 560 Oxford 375 Plymouth 1,742 Portsmouth 1,579 Preston 404 Reading 483 Rochdale 498 Rotherham 1,068 Salford 459 Sheffield 2,551 Warley 457 Solihull 345 Southampton 2,566 Southend-on-Sea 1,319 Southport 313 South Shields 366 Torbay 418 Stockport 856 Stoke-on-Trent 496 Sunderland 421 St. Helens 340 Tynemouth 312 Wakefield 161 Wallasey 405 Walsall 630 Warrington 89 West Bromwich 950 Hartlepool 901 Wigan 530 Wolverhampton 1,402 Worcester 492 York 619 Total English County Boroughs 61,816
GREATER LONDON COUNCIL—NEW LONDON BOROUGHS Barking 593 Barnet 2,529 Bexley 1,545 Brent 305 Bromley 3,863 Camden 825 Croydon 3,047 Ealing 1,800 Enfield 2,084 Greenwich 1,080 Hackney 74 Hammersmith 319 Haringey 1,038 Harrow 2,167 Havering 2,141 Hillingdon 1,944 Hounslow 993 Islington 769 Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea 869 Royal Borough of Kingston-upon-Thames 1,162 Lambeth 1,537 Lewisham 1,396 Merton 937 Newham 1,933 Redbridge 3,169 Richmond-upon-Thames 2,151 Southwark 1,084 Sutton 1,247 Tower Hamlets 417 Waltham Forest 1,539 Wandsworth 1,352 City of Westminster 1,542 City of London — Total of New London Boroughs plus Greater London Council 47,451 TOTALS English County Councils 187,482 English County Boroughs 61,816 London Boroughs 47,451 OVERALL TOTAL 296,749 The figures for Wales are a matter for my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State for Wales, who will write to the hon. Member.