§ Mr. Knoxasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what proportion of classes in primary schools in the Leek parliamentary constituency has 40 or more pupils; and how this compares with each of the past five years.
§ Miss Joan LestorThis information is not compiled for individual parliamentary constituencies in my Department. The following figures relate to the Staffordshire education authority in the last five years before the reorganisation of local government on 1st April 1974:
January Percentage of classes in maintained primary schools with more than 40 pupils 1970 … … … 12.0 1971 … … … 6.8 1972 … … … 3.1 1973 … … … 2.9 1974 … … … 3.1 The Staffordshire Local Education Authority may have this information on a constituency basis.