HC Deb 08 March 1978 vol 945 cc648-9W
Mr. Watkinson

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science, how many children of school age there are in each of the counties in the South-West Region.

Miss Margaret Jackson

This information is not collected by my Department. However, the Registrar General has estimated that in 1976 the numbers of children aged from 5 to 15 inclusive—corresponding roughly to the age range of compulsory education—in each of the counties of the South-West Region was as follows:

Mid-1976 Interim Revised Estimates of Home Population aged 5–15 inclusive
(thousands)
Avon … … … 158
Cornwall* … … … 65
Devon … … … 149
Dorset … … … 88
Gloucester … … … 90
Somerset … … … 70
Wiltshire … … … 98
* including the Isles of Scilly