§ Mr. Haselhurstasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what information she has regarding those education authorities in England and Wales, which, against a national background of a falling secondary school population, are expecting an increase in the number of secondary school pupils in their county or in certain areas within their county over the next five years; and if she will publish a list of the places so affected.
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§ Miss Margaret Jackson,pursuant to her reply [Official Report, 4th December 1978; Vol. 959, c. 501], gave the following information:
My Department does not collect comprehensive details of the forecasts made by local education authorities for their areas. However, against a background of a 3 per cent. fall in secondary pupil numbers in England between January 1978 and January 1983, trends in the age distributions of pupils suggest that the following authorities might experience a net increase:
- Sutton
- St. Helens
- Wigan
- Buckinghamshire
- Cornwall
- Dorset
- Isle of Wight
- Lincolnshire
- Northamptonshire
- Staffordshire
- Dudley
- Bury
- Kirklees
- Cambridgeshire
- Derbyshire
- Essex
- Kent
- Norfolk
- Salop
- Suffolk
- Solihull
- Stockport
- Bedfordshire
- Cheshire
- Devon
- Hereford and Worcester
- Lancashire
- North Yorkshire
- Somerset
- West Sussex
The available statistics do not enable a comparable list of areas smaller than local education authorities to be provided. However, according to information supplied by local education authorities in connection with bids for capital school building resources in 1979–80, 1980–81 and 1981–82 the following authorities, for reasons of population increase or because of movement of population within an area, expect to have a deficiency of secondary school places in certain parts of their area after September 1981:
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- Bexley
- Merton
- Dudley
- St. Helens
- Bury
- Salford
- Wigan
- Bradford
- Leeds
- South Tyneside
- Bedfordshire
- Cambridgeshire
- Cornwall
- Dorset
- Essex
- Hereford and Worcester
- Isle of Wight
- Leicestershire
- Northamptonshire
- Salop
- Suffolk
- Bromley
- Newham
- Walsall
- Sefton
- Oldham
- Stockport
- Barnsley
- Calderdale
- Wakefield
- Sunderland
- Berkshire
- Cheshire
- Derbyshire
- Durham
- Gloucestershire
- Hertfordshire
- Kent
- Norfolk
- Northumberland
- Somerset
- Surrey
- Enfield
- Birmingham
- Wolverhampton
- Bolton
- Rochdale
- Tameside
- Rotherham
- Kirklees
- Gateshead
- Avon
- Buckinghamshire
- Cleveland
- Devon
- East Sussex
- Hampshire
- Humberside
- Lancashire
- North Yorkshire
- Nottinghamshire
- Staffordshire
- Warwickshire