§ Mr. Fosterasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will publish for each local education authority area the numbers of 16-year-olds eligible to leave school in 1978–79.
§ Dr. BoysonThe estimated numbers of pupils in maintained secondary schools for each local education authority in England who will become 16 years old during the academic year 1978–79 and who become eligible to leave school in the spring and summer terms, 1979, are as follows:
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Barking 2,399 Barnet 3,870 Bexley 3,234 Brent 3,466 Bromley 3,875 Croydon 4,736 Ealing 3,620 Enfield 3,743 Harringey 2,940 Harrow 2,308 Havering 4,058 Hillingdon 3,349 Hounslow 2,981 Kingston-upon-Thames 1,663 Merton 2,257 Newham 3,491 Redbridge 2,980 Richmond-upon-Thames 1,590 Sutton 2,282 Waltham Forest 2,930 Inner London 31,949 Birmingham 17,596 Coventry 5,442 Dudley 4,516 Sandwell 5,031 Solihull 3,441 Walsall 4,910 Wolverhampton 4,516 Knowsley 3,827 Liverpool 9,416 St. Helens 3,155 Sefton 5,106 Wirral 5,535 Bolton 3,922
Bury 2,600 Manchester 7,884 Oldham 3,333 Rochdale 3,345 Salford 4,300 Stockport 4,395 Tameside 3,566 Trafford 3,495 Wigan 5,012 Barnsley 3,789 Doncaster 5,126 Rotherham 4,230 Sheffield 8,682 Bradford 7,204 Calderdale 2,890 Kirklees 5,910 Leeds 11,074 Wakefield 4,894 Gateshead 3,401 Newcastle upon Tyne 4,317 North Tyneside 3,106 South Tyneside 2,844 Sunderland 5,162 Isles of Scilly 30 Avon 13,098 Bedfordshire 7,907 Berkshire 10,215 Buckinghamshire 7,887 Cambridgeshire 7,822 Cheshire 14,580 Cleveland 10,588 Cornwall 5,843 Cumbria 7,523 Derbyshire 13,819 Devon 12,454 Dorset 7,679 Durham 9,773 East Sussex 7,743 Essex 21,817 Gloucestershire 7,607 Hampshire 22,015 Hereford and Worcester 8,887 Hertfordshire 15,130 Humberside 14,663 Isle of Wight 1,510 Kent 21,843 Lancashire 20,582 Leicestershire 13,300 Lincolnshire 8,044 Norfolk 9,383 North Yorkshire 9,539 Northampton 7,871 Northumberland 4,297 Nottingham 16,262 Oxfordshire 7,855 Salop 5,747 Somerset 5,654 Staffordshire 15,601 Suffolk 8,150 Surrey 12,984 Warwickshire 7,217 West Sussex 8,723 Wiltshire 7,757