HC Deb 19 May 1978 vol 950 cc328-30W
Mr. Andrew F. Bennett

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if she will list the total number of places available in nursery schools and classes for each education authority in England, giving in each case the percentage of the population under the age of five years this figure represents.

Miss Margaret Jackson

It is normally assumed that the number of children of nursery age can be estimated as about one-half of the 1 to 4-year age group. The following table shows for January 1977 the number of pupils in maintained nursery schools and in nursery classes of maintained primary schools in each local education authority in England and the full-time equivalent number of these expressed as a percentage of the number of children of nursery age:

(A) (B) (C) (D)
Local education authority Full-time pupils Part-time pupils Total (full-time equivalent) Column (C) as a percentage of half the age-group 1–4 (at 30 June 1976)
Sefton 222 1,386 915 11.0
Wirral 82 1,286 725 7.8
Bolton 855 1,175 1,442.5 19.0
Bury 163 271 298.5 5.5
Manchester 4,052 2,044 5,074 42.5
Oldham 665 336 833 12.3
Rochdale 194 1,215 801.5 12.5
Salford 1,190 470 1,425 20.5
Stockport 331 385 523.5 6.4
Tameside 100 1,068 634 10.1
Trafford 58 466 291 4.9
Wigan 21 1,263 652.5 6.7
Barnsley 50 2,317 1,208.5 18.9
Doncaster 215 2,222 1,326 16.0
Rotherham 575 1,650 1,400 18.2
Sheffield 633 2,553 1,909.5 13.6
Bradford 776 2,367 1,959.5 14.8
Calderdale 878 70 913 17.2
Kirklees 90 1,609 894.5 8.2
Leeds 314 2,599 1,613.5 8.2
Wakefield 433 1,916 1,391 15.7
Gateshead 178 730 543 9.1
Newcastle upon Tyne 809 883 1,250.5 17.9
North Tyneside 60 1,251 685.5 13.2
South Tyneside 105 990 600 14.3
Sunderland 243 1,398 942 10.8
Isles of Stilly
Avon 1,471 1,005 1,973.5 8.3
Bedfordshire 1,030 1,418 1,739 11.3
Berkshire 511 2,954 1,988 10.3
Buckinghamshire 20 1,627 833.5 5.5
Cambridgeshire 298 1,461 1,028.5 6.3
Cheshire 370 3,361 2,050.5 7.6
Cleveland 170 4,591 2,465.5 14.5
Cornwall 76 854 503 4.6
Cumbria 390 1,435 1,107.5 8.9
Derbyshire 905 3,134 2,472 10.3
Devon 272 927 735.5 3.2
Dorset 576 288 2.2
Durham 594 2,957 2,072.5 12.6
East Sussex 26 760 406 2.9
Essex 451 1,165 1,033.5 2.5
Gloucestershire
Hampshire 109 1,416 817 2.0
Hereford and Worcester 234 140 304 1.8
Hertfordshire 530 5,667 3,363.5 13.4
Humberside 1,245 2,088 2,289 9.4
Isle of Wight 13 93 59.5 2.3
Kent 77 1,355 754.5 1.9
Lancashire 777 3,791 2,672.5 7.4
Leicestershire 1,241 3,665 3,073.5 13.0
Lincolnshire 245 525 507.5 3.5
Norfolk 83 666 416 2.3
North Yorkshire 364 1,609 1,168.5 6.9
Northamptonshire 260 831 675.5 4.3
Northumberland 128 552 404 5.6
Nottinghamshire 499 6,281 3,639.5 13.3
Oxfordshire 383 1,206 986 6.8
Salop 27 862 458 4.3
Somerset 143 91 188.5 1.8
Staffordshire 2,471 2,494 3,718 13.0
Suffolk 89 1,151 664.5 4.0
Surrey 187 2,371 1,372.5 5.5
Warwickshire 229 1,461 959.5 6.9
West Sussex 68 343 239.5 1.6
Wiltshire 85 42.5 0.3
England 41,390 145,887 114,333.5 9.1