§ Mr. Marsdenasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many nursery school places are currently provided by each local education authority in England and Wales; and what is the percentage of children under 5 years of age in each area.
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§ Mr. Ian GilmourThe figures, based where applicable on NATO definition of defence expenditure, are shown in the attached table. The percentage figure for Britain in 1973 under national definition is approximately 5.75 per cent., as given in the 1973 Statement on the Defence Estimates.
§ Mr. RaisonThe following table sets out numbers of full- and part-time pupils in nursery schools and classes in January 1973 and gives these numbers as percentages of births in 1968 and 1969.
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LEA Number of Pupils Percentage of Births England: Counties Bedfordshire 244 2.2 Berkshire 893 5.1 Buckinghamshire 2,131 10.6 Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely 663 7.5 Cheshire 591 1.7 Cornwall 44 0.4 Cumberland 308 4.5 Derbyshire 815 3.7 Devon 104 0.9 Dorset — — Durham 1,444 5.5 Essex 889 2.2 Gloucestershire 48 0.3 Hampshire 60 0.2 Herefordshire 100 2.2 Hertfordshire 3,425 11.9 Huntingdon and Peter borough 239 3.3 Isle of Wight 32 1.2 Isles of Scilly — — Kent 656 1.4 Lancashire 4,356 5.2 184W
LEA Number of Pupils Percentage of Births Leicestershire 27 0.2 Lincolnshire— Holland — — Kesteven 98 1.9 Lindsey 201 1.5 Norfolk 176 1.3 Northamptonshire 283 2.4 Northumberland 304 21 Nottinghamshire 455 20 Oxfordshire 198 20 Rutland — — Shropshire (Salop) 430 3.8 Somerset 155 0.9 Staffordshire 1,015 3.6 Suffolk, East 379 4.9 Suffolk, West 82 1.4 Surrey 1,146 40 Sussex, East 121 1.1 Sussex, West 355 2.8 Warwickshire 759 3.6 Westmorland 232 10.7 Wiltshire 28 0.2 Worcestershire 173 1.2 Yorkshire— East Riding 57 0.8 North Riding 194 1.9 West Riding 5,510 9.0 England: County Boroughs Barnsley 1,006 35.4 Barrow-in-Furness 175 8.4 Bath — — Birkenhead 459 9.2 Birmingham 3,801 9.7 Blackburn 766 20.8 Blackpool — — Bolton 1,302 24.1 Bootle 288 10.3 Bournemouth — — Bradford 1,600 14.2 Brighton 558 12.7 Bristol 2,343 17.8 Burnley 835 34.1 Burton-upon-Trent 84 4.5 Bury 69 2.7 Canterbury 31 3.3 Carlisle — — Chester 173 80 Coventry 801 6.4 Darlington 744 26.8 Derby 968 13.1 Dewsbury 595 29.6 Doncaster 512 19.9 Dudley 502 7.1 Eastbourne — — Exeter 60 2.2 Gateshead 282 9.1 Gloucester 114 3.4 Great Yarmouth 87 6.0 Grimsby 453 12.9 Halifax 349 10.8 Hartlepool 282 80 Hastings — — Huddersfield 315 6.5 Ipswich 148 3.5 Kingston upon Hull 537 5.2 Leeds 1,164 7.0 Leicester 4,355 42.4 Lincoln 239 9.8 Liverpool 2,792 12.1 Luton 512 7.6 185W
LEA Number of Pupils Percentage of Births Manchester 5,455 26.3 Newcastle upon Tyne 716 10.3 Northampton 485 11.7 Norwich 305 8.1 Nottingham 2,015 17.8 Oldham 355 9.4 Oxford 794 25.8 Plymouth 125 1.5 Portsmouth 185 2.9 Preston 702 19.3 Reading 673 13.9 Rochdale 741 22.9 Rotherham 379 12.4 St. Helens — — Salford 998 18.5 Sheffield 2,030 11.7 Solihull — — Southampton 292 4.3 Southend-on-Sea 53 1.2 Southport 439 20.0 South Shields 244 7.7 Stockport 396 7.9 Stoke-on-Trent 2,279 25.9 Sunderland 526 7.0 Teesside 1,084 7.4 Torbay 82 3.4 Tynemouth 306 134 Wakefield — — Wallasey 64 1.9 Walsall 1,115 15.8 Warley 620 10.8 Warrington 565 23.7 West Bromwich 816 13.5 Wigan 187 6.0 Wolverhampton 959 9.5 Worcester 76 3.1 York 233 6.9 Outer London Boroughs Barking 209 4.6 Barnet 843 9.9 Bexley 309 4.4 Brent 396 3.5 Bromley 115 1.3 Croydon 327 3.0 Ealing 1,044 9.8 Enfield 672 8.6 Haringey 1,080 10.9 Harrow 195 3.1 Havering 74 0.9 Hillingdon 662 9.4 Hounslow 509 7.6 Kingston upon Thames 496 12.2 Merton 762 15.1 Newham 1,607 17.1 Redbridge 23 0.3 Richmond upon Thames 193 3.9 Sutton 500 10.8 Waltham Forest 381 4.7 ILEA 15,078 15.4 Wales: Counties Anglesey 475 21.8 Breconshire 309 20.7 Caernarvonshire 1,417 42.6 Cardiganshire 90 6.5 Carmarthenshire 134 3.1 Denbighshire 352 6.1 Flintshire 464 7.8 Glamorgan 5,145 21.1
LEA Number of Pupils Percentage of Births Merioneth 55 5.1 Monmouthshire 1,011 8.5 Montgomeryshire 171 13.5 Pembrokeshire 249 7.3 Radnorshire 25 5.0 Wales: County Boroughs Cardiff 1,127 12.4 Merthyr Tydfil 490 26.6 Newport (Mon.) 1,064 26.3 Swansea 888 16.9 Total: England and Wales 123,956 7.7