§ Mr. Knoxasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what is the average class size in primary schools in the Leek parliamentary constituency; and how this figure compares with the figure for England and Wales.
§ Miss Margaret JacksonStatistics are not compiled for individual parliamentary690W constituencies by my Department. In January 1976, the latest date for which information is available, the average size of a primary class—as registered—in the county of Stafford as a whole was 29.6 pupils. The corresponding figure for England and Wales was 29.2 pupils.