§ 37. Mr. Loydenasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science whether he proposes to allocate additional resources to the extension of nursery school provision in the near future.
§ Miss Margaret JacksonAllocations totalling £8.5 million have already been made to local education authorities in England for nursery education building starts in the current year. I am not yet in a position to make an announcement about allocations beyond 1976–77.
§ Mrs. Renée Shortasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science (l) what percentage of children of nursery 469W school age are receiving nursery education in nursery classes in each local education authority;
(2) how many rising fives have been admitted early to primary education in each local education authority.
§ Miss Margaret JacksonOn the assumption that the number of children of nursery age in any given local education authority area can be estimated as
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MAINTAINED SCHOOLS—ENGLAND January 1975 Full-time and part-time pupils under 5 as a percentage of the nursery age group* Rising fives attending maintained primary schools excluding those in nursery classes Local Education Authority In nursery schools In nursery classes at primary schools (a) (b) (c) Greater London Barking … — 5.4 511 Barnet … 3.7 6.8 841 Bexley … 2.7 1.9 681 Brent … 2.1 4.7 785 Bromley … — 1.3 722 Croydon … 2.9 0.6 1,144 Ealing … 3.5 9.5 997 Enfield … — 8.2 804 Haringey … 4.3 14.4 733 Harrow … 2.5 5.8 621 Havering … — 1.8 837 Hillingdon … 2.7 8.4 757 Hounslow … — 21.8 519 Kingston upon Thames … 6.4 19.6 398 Merton … 8.7 10.8 436 Newham … 9.6 15.1 133 Redbridge … — 3.0 611 Richmond-upon-Thames … 2.7 5.0 421 Sutton … 4.4 6.5 45 Waltham Forest … 3.8 2.8 667 Total Outer London Boroughs … 2.9 7.1 12,663 ILEA … 5.7 19.1 6,594 Total Greater London … 3.8 11.0 19,257 Metropolitan Districts— West Midlands Birmingham … 6.1 6.2 4,113 Coventry … 1.8 7.3 1,368 Dudley … 6.6 3.5 1,021 Sandwell … 2.2 14.0 1,298 Solihull … — 3.7 992 Walsall … 6.1 11.5 1,209 Wolverhampton … 5.6 7.0 1,125 Total … 4.7 7.4 11,126 Merseyside Knowsley … — 4.8 753 Liverpool … 4.3 17.1 2,004 St. Helens … 1.0 0.8 869 Sefton … 3.0 9.4 1,254 Wirral … 1.2 8.1 1,424 Total … 2.3 9.6 6,304 about one-half of the 1–4 age group, the proportions in receipt of nursery education in maintained schools, in January 1975, are as shown in columns (a) and (b) below.
The information available to the Department about rising fives relates only to those attending school in January of each year. In 1975, the numbers attending maintained primary schools, excluding those in nursery classes, are given in column (c).
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MAINTAINED SCHOOLS—ENGLAND January 1975 Full-time and part-time pupils under 5 as a percentage of the nursery age group* Rising fives attending maintained primary schools excluding those in nursery classes Local Education Authority In nursery schools In nursery classes at primary schools (a) (b) (c) Greater Manchester Bolton … 6.9 13.1 1,140 Bury … 1.9 0.7 749 Manchester … 3.1 39.0 1,837 Oldham … 2.6 6.0 1,047 Rochdale … 11.6 5.4 960 Salford … 7.5 11.5 1,094 Stockport … 4.3 1.0 1,194 Tameside … 4.9 6.1 1,019 Trafford … 0.8 4.4 903 Wigan … 2.5 3.4 1,448 Total … 4.5 11.3 11,391 South Yorkshire Barnsley … 4.6 19.8 973 Doncaster … — 21.6 1,333 Rotherham … 4.1 13.8 1,092 Sheffield … 4.5 11.2 2,219 Total … 3.5 15.5 5,617 West Yorkshire Bradford … 4.3 14.0 1,773 Calderdale … 2.1 10.0 849 Kirklees … 6.2 5.5 1,289 Leeds … 1.3 9.6 2,967 Wakefield … 2.2 12.4 1,310 Total … 3.1 10.3 8,188 Tyne and Wear Gateshead … 1.8 6.7 864 Newcastle-upon-Tyne … 5.9 9.3 989 North Tyneside … 3.8 8.1 807 South Tyneside … 8.0 3.1 679 Sunderland … 6.9 4.0 1,339 Total … 5.4 6.3 4,678 West Midlands … 4.7 7.4 11,126 Merseyside … 2.3 9.6 6,304 Greater Manchester … 4.5 11.3 11,391 South Yorkshire … 3.5 15.5 5,617 West Yorkshire … 3.1 10.3 8,188 Tyne and Wear … 5.4 6.3 4,678 Total Metropolitan Districts … 4.0 9.9 47,304
MAINTAINED SCHOOLS—ENGLAND January 1975 Full-time and part-time pupils under5 as a percentage of the nursery age group* Rising maintained primary schools excluding those in nursery classes Local Education Authority In nursery schools In nursery classes at primary schools (a) (b) (c) Non-Metropolitan Counties Isles of Scilly … — — 1 Avon … 5.4 3.7 2,994 Bedfordshire … 4.4 2.9 940 Berkshire … 7.7 4.5 1,883 Buckinghamshire … 2.8 5.6 1,871 Cambridgeshire … 3.9 8.4 1,819 Cheshire … 1.6 4.2 3,665 Cleveland … 3.5 13.4 2,581 Cornwall … 0.9 — 1,343 Cumbria … 4.3 5.5 1,938 Derbyshire … 2.5 5.9 3,410 Devon … 0.3 2.7 2,599 Dorset … — 2.1 1,595 Durham … 9.2 4.6 2,518 East Sussex … 1.1 3.9 1,654 Essex … 0.5 2.6 3,951 Gloucestershire … 0.3 0.2 1,759 Hampshire … 0.4 1.9 2,770 Hereford and Worcester … 0.2 1.7 1,871 Hertfordshire … 6.8 7.9 3,352 Humberside … 2.2 5.5 3,295 Isle of Wight … — 1.2 399 Kent … 0.2 2.4 3,411 Lancashire … 7.5 3.1 5,281 Leicestershire … 0.1 18.7 912 Lincolnshire … 2.1 2.0 1,951 Norfolk … 1.6 2.2 2,631 North Yorkshire … 1.5 4.7 2,156 Northamptonshire … 3.8 1.8 2,002 Northumberland … 1.1 3.3 1,063 Nottinghamshire … 1.5 9.2 2,637 Oxfordshire … 5.4 3.8 1,925 Salop … 1.8 2.7 963 Somerset … 0.8 1.0 1,475 Staffordshire … 5.4 6.0 2,927 Suffolk … 0.7 4.5 1,778 Surrey … 1.3 4.3 2,583 Warwickshire … 3.2 2.3 1,869 West Sussex … 2.0 0.4 1,457 Wiltshire … — — 2,076 Total Non-Metropolitan Counties … 2.6 4.4 87,305 Total England … 3.1 6.8 153,866 * One half of the population 1–4 according to the Registrar-General's estimate.