§ 30. Miss Joan Lestorasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will give the total numbers of children aged 3, 4 and 5 years respectively, receiving nursery education in maintained schools and classes in each local authority area.
§ Dr. BoysonIn January 1980, the latest date for which information is available, there was a total of 215,993 full-time and part-time pupils in maintained nursery schools and nursery classes in maintained primary schools in England. The distribution of these pupils by their ages at 31 August 1979 in each local education authority was as follows:
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Full-time and Part-time Pupils in Maintained Nursery Schools and Nursery Classes in Maintained Primary Schools Age at 31 August 1979 2 3 4 5✶ Total Barking 44 554 204 — 802 Barnet 307 1,230 118 1 1,656 Baxley 41 252 147 — 440 Brent 181 1,555 44 — 1,780 Bromley — 70 32 — 102 Croydon 82 393 11 — 486 Ealing 190 1,256 128 1 1,575 Enfield 75 921 186 — 1,182 Haringey 300 1,461 40 3 1,804 Harrow 14 421 308 — 743 Havering 12 157 61 — 230 Hillingdon 140 1,363 564 — 2,067 Hounslow 111 1,272 29 — 1,412 Kingston-upon-Thames 130 549 158 — 837 Merton 193 919 273 — 1,385 Newham 352 1,653 755 — 2,760 Redbridge 11 209 228 — 448 Richmond-upon-Thames 79 265 9 1 354 Sutton 28 253 252 — 533 Waltham Forest 129 1,320 428 1 1,878 Inner London 2,198 11,156 5,164 2 18,520 Birmingham 1,060 4,390 927 2 6,379 Coventry 224 1,394 7 1 1,626 Dudley 109 851 671 — 1,631 Sandwell 440 2,060 82 1 2,583 Solihulll 21 1,010 — — 1,031 Walsall 662 2,295 76 — 3,033 Wolverhampton 336 1,859 836 — 3,031 Knowsley 97 499 181 — 777 Liverpool 1,028 3,205 309 — 4,542 St. Helens 178 668 56 — 922 Sefton 444 1,266 121 1 1,832 Wirral 156 1,080 102 — 1,338 Bolton 462 1,440 52 — 1,954 Bury 91 494 1 — 586 Manchester 715 3,398 1,314 6 5,433 Oldham 29 1,313 3 — 1,345 Rochdale 199 1,427 2 — 1,628 Salford 303 1,700 88 — 2,091 Stockport 172 659 4 — 835 Tameside 301 1,140 140 — 1,581 Trafford 27 270 234 1 532 Wigan 278 1,077 65 — 1,420 Barnsley 327 1,461 591 — 2,379 Doncaster 227 2,384 28 — 2,639 Rotherham 138 1,579 718 — 2,435 Sheffield 386 2,232 901 3 3,522 Bradford 349 2,429 782 — 3,560 Calderdale 7 1,008 26 1 1,042 Kirklees 324 1,552 656 — 2,532 Leeds 391 2,251 764 — 3,406 Wakefield 361 1,968 737 — 3,066 Gateshead 152 985 28 — 1,165 Newcastle upon Tyne 432 1,755 10 — 2,197 North Tyneside 359 1,509 4 1 1,873
Age at 31 August 1979 2 3 4 5✶ Total South Tyneside 267 1,142 35 — 1,444 Sunderland 308 1,976 60 — 2,344 Isles of Scilly — — — — — Avon 148 1,241 1,086 39 2,514 Bedfordshire 290 1,968 1,752 6 4,016 Berkshire 135 1,712 1,814 — 3,661 Buckinghamshire 44 937 891 — 1,872 Cambridgeshire 168 1,317 241 1 1,727 Cheshire 511 2,491 993 16 4,011 Cleveland 962 4,075 1,468 — 6,505 Cornwall 103 818 230 — 1,151 Cumbria 292 1,315 270 — 1,877 Derbyshire 397 2,503 1,155 — 4,055 Devon 88 868 475 1 1,432 Dorset 13 352 236 1 602 Durham 609 3,377 300 2 4,288 East Sussex 103 624 131 — 858 Essex 130 939 655 1 1,725 Gloucestershire — — — — — Hampshire 191 1,086 427 — 1,704 Hereford and Worcester 18 396 307 — 721 Hertfordshire 343 4,663 2,287 — 7,293 Humberside 333 2,944 1,656 3 4,936 Isle of Wight 21 84 5 — 110 Kent 130 761 622 — 1,513 Lancashire 980 3,078 257 — 4,315 Leicestershire 345 2,371 1,906 — 4,622 Lincolnshire 63 533 320 3 919 Norfolk 60 554 147 — 761 North Yorkshire 192 1,414 698 1 2,305 Northamptonshire 137 826 320 1 1,284 Northumberland 134 673 111 — 918 Nottinghamshire 816 4,979 3,206 2 9,003 Oxfordshire 70 712 801 1 1,584 Shropshire 49 547 297 — 893 Somerset 24 75 55 — 154 Staffordshire 379 3,369 1,857 1 1,467 Suffolk 59 804 603 1 5,606 Surrey 111 1,342 1,124 1 2,578 Warwickshire 182 1,182 392 — 1,756 West Sussex 22 229 193 1 445 Wiltshire 6 59 19 — 84 England 24,635 142,193 49,057 108 215,993 ✶ Including a small number of pupils over five years.