Primary Schools

HC Deb 01 April 1980 vol 982 c161W

2. Mr. Dover

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what are the estimates for the numbers in primary schools for the next five years.

Dr. Boyson

The current projections of primary age children attending maintained schools in England and Wales in January of 1980 and each of the next five years are:

		million
1980	…	4.3
1981	…	4.1
1982	…	3.9
1983	…	3.7
1984	…	3.6
1985	…	3.5