§ Miss Joan Lestorasked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many full-time day nursery places are provided by each local authority.
§ Mr. NewtonThe information is given in the following table:
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Local authority Places in day nurseries provided by the authority at 31 March 1981 Children attending private or voluntary day nuseries at 31 March 1981 placed and paid for by the authority Cleveland 270 16 Cumbria 141 0 Durham 150 0 Northumberland 40 0 Gateshead 110 0 Newcastle upon Tyne 250 22 North Tyneside 91 0 South Tyneside *200 (1979) 0 Sunderland 220 0 Humberside 40 9 North Yorkshire 136 0 Barnsley 0 0 Doncaster 25 5 Rotherham 0 0 Sheffield 372 437 Bradford 452 0 Calderdale 85 0 Kirklees 186 0 Leeds 450 2 Wakefield 70 7 Cheshire 514 6 Lancashire 1,389 26 Bolton 215 0 Bury 110 (1980)0 Manchester 1,217 0 Oldham 233 0 Rochdale 320 0 Salford 406 0 Stockport 152 2 Tameside 450 0 Trafford 240 0 Wigan 195 0 Knowsley 420 0 Liverpool 908 0 Sefton 286 1 St. Helens 77 0 Wirral 220 0 Hereford and Worcester 61 6 Salop 0 12 Staffordshire 340 8 Warwickshire 0 4 Birmingham 1,443 209 Coventry 519 1 Dudley 0 0 Sandwell 140 0 Solihull 60 6 Walsall 120 0 Wolverhampton 125 (1979) 0 Derbyshire 425 0
Local authority Places in day nurseries provided by the authority at 31 March 1981 Children attending private or voluntary day nuseries at 31 March 1981 placed and paid for by the authority Leicestershire 505 0 Lincolnshire 80 3 Northamptonshire 100 (1979) 42 Nottinghamshire 565 111 Bedfordshire 254 23 Berkshire 134 12 Buckinghamshire 50 25 Cambridgeshire 181 24 Essex 266 15 Hertfordshire 386 1 Norfolk 40 0 Oxfordshire 90 0 Suffolk 70 2 Camden 616 43 Greenwich 215 11 Hackney 546 35 Hammersmith 538 0 Islington 640 43 Kensington 354 25 Lambeth 720 (1980) 65 Lewisham 240 36 Southwark 572 25 Tower Hamlets 395 0 Wandsworth 667 0 Westminster 510 0 City of London 000 0 Barking 145 0 Barnet 281 0 Bexley 45 2 Brent 862 0 Bromley 50 31 Croydon 179 10 Ealing 352 0 Enfield 145 0 Haringey 280 16 Harrow 110 0 Havering 190 0 Hillingdon 250 0 Hounslow 191 34 Kingston-upon-Thames 96 (1979)7 Merton 139 (1979) 21 Newham 253 35 Redbridge 70 29 Richmond-upon-Thames 131 0 Sutton 52 119 Waltham Forest 285 24 Dorset 105 0 Hampshire 339 0 Isle of Wight 0 0 Kent 32 37 Surrey 123 67 East Sussex 171 0 West Sussex 0 34 Wiltshire 0 59 Avon 550 27 Cornwall 0 0 Devon 74 8 Gloucestershire 75 (1980) 26 Isles of Scilly 0 0 Somerset 70 0