HC Deb 25 November 1981 vol 13 cc390-2W
Mrs. Renée Short

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what percentage of children aged under five years attended nursery classes at the latest convenient date; what were the figures for each of the last five years; and if he will break these down to show each local education authority's figures.

Dr. Boyson

[pursuant to his reply, 12 November 1981, c. 158]:The following is the information requested for schools in England:

Pupils under five years in maintained nursery schools and in nursery classes of maintained primary schools as a percentage of the estimated population aged three and four years*.
January of each year 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981
Barking 8 15 20 22 22 26
Barnet 16 18 21 25 27 28
Bexley 7 8 9 9 9 11
Brent 10 16 19 27 30 34
Bromley 1 1 1 2 2 2
Croydon 4 5 6 6 6 7
Ealing 14 18 22 22 25 31
Enfield 10 12 15 19 20 21
Haringey 22 27 29 32 35 40
Harrow 8 10 12 15 17 17
Havering 2 4 4 4 4 4
Havering Hillingdon 18 23 29 33 40 41
Hounslow 21 22 25 30 31 33
Kingston-upon-Thames 28 28 29 32 31 32
Merton 21 29 33 34 38 40
Newham 26 34 39 43 47 53
Redbridge 6 9 9 9 9 9
Richmond-upon-Thames 7 9 12 9 12 18
Sutton 13 14 14 14 14 15
Waltham Forest 8 18 22 32 34 39
Inner London 26 31 34 36 38 38
Birmingham 15 20 21 25 26 28
Coventry 11 14 15 18 19 23
Dudley 18 19 21 22 22 23
Sandwell 21 25 26 28 34 36
Solihull 11 15 18 19 21 25
Walsall 21 34 43 45 47 55
Wolverhampton 23 33 36 39 46 50
Knowsley 7 10 15 16 15 21
Liverpool 25 30 35 38 40 45
St. Helens 7 14 17 17 18 18
Sefton 16 19 21 25 27 26
Wirral 13 15 16 16 17 18
Bolton 21 27 27 29 30 32
Bury 3 8 9 11 12 15
Manchester 46 51 50 52 52 53
Oldham 9 15 17 19 24 24
Rochdale 18 22 23 25 28 29
Salford 22 24 28 33 37 39
Stockport 7 9 10 11 12 13
Tameside 14 19 21 25 30 37
Trafford 6 9 9 10 10 11
Wigan 8 13 15 16 17 19
Barnsley 28 37 39 42 46 52
Doncaster 21 29 34 36 38 40
Rotherham 20 29 34 37 37 39
Sheffield 19 23 28 30 30 35
Bradford 19 24 25 26 28 29
Calderdale 16 18 21 23 23 24
Kirklees 13 16 22 26 27 27
Leeds 13 15 16 18 20 23
Wakefield 18 27 32 38 40 39
Gateshead 11 15 18 20 23 30
Newcastle upon Tyne 21 24 27 32 36 39
North Tyneside 17 25 30 38 45 47
South Tyneside 17 26 32 38 41 49
Sunderland 13 19 23 28 30 31
Avon 10 10 11 11 12 12
Bedfordshire 10 15 23 26 29 31
Berkshire 14 18 20 21 21 22
Buckinghamshire 9 11 12 13 13 13
Cambridgeshire 14 11 11 11 11 12
Cheshire 10 14 16 18 17 19
Cleveland 20 28 33 40 43 44

January of each year 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1951
Cornwall (including Isles of Scilly) 5 8 10 11 12 13
Cumbria 12 15 16 17 18 18
Derbyshire 12 17 18 19 19 19
Devon 4 5 5 6 7 8
Dorset 4 4 4 5 5 5
Durham 16 22 27 30 30 32
East Sussex 5 6 7 7 7 8
Essex 3 4 4 5 5 5
Gloucestershire 0
Hampshire 3 4 4 4 5 5
Hereford and Worcester 2 2 3 5 5 5
Hertfordshire 19 25 29 32 32 30
Humberside 9 14 19 22 23 25
Isle of Wight 4 4 5 5 5 5
Kent 3 4 4 4 4 5
Lancashire 11 12 13 13 13 15
Leicestershire 20 21 21 22 22 22
Lincolnshire 5 5 6 7 7 8
Norfolk 4 4 4 5 5 5
North Yorkshire 7 12 14 16 16 16
Northamptonshire 6 7 8 8 9 8
Northumberland 7 9 9 12 13 16
Nottinghamshire 13 25 35 39 39 39
Oxfordshire 10 11 11 12 12 13
Shropshire 8 8 10 10 10 11
Somerset 2 2 2 2 2 2
Staffordshire 13 17 20 22 22 24
Suffolk 7 7 9 10 10 10
Surrey 9 10 11 12 12 12
Warwickshire 10 12 13 14 15 15
West Sussex 2 3 3 3 3 3
Wiltshire 0 1 0 1 1 1
England 11 15 17 18 20 21
* Excluding pupils under five in infant classes of primary schools.

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