§ Ms. Harmanasked the Secretary of State for Social Services (1) what percentage of children under five years is cared for by registered childminders;
(2) how many registered childminders there are in each local authority area;
(3) in respect of how many children each local authority pays the cost of childminders;
(4) how many children in each local authority area are looked after by registered childminders.
§ Mr. Newton[pursuant to his reply, 22 February 1984, c. 565–568]: I regret that the statistical table in my reply on 22 February contained several errors. The table should have read as follows:
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Children's day care facilities—childminders—31 March 1983 Registered childminders Children paid for by local authority Total places Local authority places Non local authority places Cleveland 195 0 5 366 Cumbria 167 0 0 379 Durham 347 0 2 414 Northumberland 145 0 2 414 Gateshead 116 18 0 238 Newcastle upon Tyne 226 0 26 480 North Tyneside 95 0 16 199 South Tynside 124 21 0 237 Sunderland 98 0 26 178 Humberside 479 180 1 965 North Yorkshire 342 0 21 990 Barnsley 104 4 0 294 Doncaster 234 0 16 470 Rotherham 85 0 2 180 Sheffield 425 0 25 938 Bradford 511 0 0 1,010 Calderdale 169 43 0 357 Kirklees* 157 0 0 638 Leeds 545 0 26 1,302 Wakefield 201 0 2 570 Cheshire 1,162 0 15 2,416 Lancashire 1,352 5 4 3,206 Bolton 294 0 0 679 Bury† 119 0 0 266 Manchester 292 0 0 713 Oldham 310 0 2 618 Rochdale 303 0 0 606 Salford 218 0 0 400 Stockport* 266 0 12 657 Tameside 252 0 0 543 Trafford 231 0 0 578 Wigan 260 0 0 624 Knowsley 32 0 0 62 Liverpool 141 25 1 508 Sefton 152 0 5 351 St. Helens 164 0 0 330 Wirral 160 0 0 379 Hereford/Vorcester 752 140 51 1,450 Shropshire 380 0 6 753 Staffordshire 1,814 0 11 4,463 Warwickshire 593 0 75 1,227 Birmingham 849 85 0 2,268 Coventry 423 0 0 746 Dudley 163 0 0 311 Sandwell 247 0 0 507 Solihull 325 0 0 650 Walsall 143 0 0 1,316 Wolverhampton* 112 0 0 241 Derbyshire 685 0 0 1,316 Leicestershire 1,496 0 16 2,869 Lincolnshire 378 0 8 664 Northamptonshire 613 0 14 1,148 Nottinghamshire 789 11 4 1,746 Bedfordshire 580 0 10 1,269 Berkshire‡ 694 335 57 1,445 Buckinghamshire 984 0 13 2,080 Cambridgeshire 867 0 0 1,550 Essex 1,283 136 15 2,588 Hertfordshire 613 0 65 1,500 Norfolk 613 0 65 1,425 Oxfordshire 739 0 52 1,500 Suffolk 776 0 20 1,324 Camden 212 322 33 370 Greenwich 27 33 0 33 Hackey 292 620 17 648 Hammersmith 220 44 0 486 Islington 222 365 59 493 Kensington 89 0 12 185
Registered childminders Children paid for by local authority Total places Local authority places Non local authority places Lambeth* 378 19 4 782 Lewisham 534 22 79 957 Southwark 303 0 73 643 Tower Hamlets‡ 137 0 0 350 Wandsworth 534 0 297 1,444 Westminster 112 32 0 216 City of London 0 0 0 0 Barking 118 0 0 228 Barnet 447 0 17 753 Bexley 300 0 25 568 Brent 674 0 0 2,129 Bromley 362 0 14 746 Croydon 620 24 0 1,137 Ealing 457 0 0 2,350 Enfield 386 0 34 752 Haringey 427 0 239 966 Harrow 377 0 38 732 Havering 164 0 1 333 Hillingdon 383 0 0 519 Hounslow 333 0 29 706 Kingston upon Thames║ 375 2 2 618 Merton 198 0 32 400 Newham 402 0 13 841 Redbridge 330 0 8 606 Richmond upon Thames 223 0 0 558 Sutton 304 0 38 504 Waltham Forest 323 4 107 544 Dorset 460 0 9 901 Hampshire 1,622 0 79 4,524 Isle of Wight 90 0 5 180 Kent‡ 1,438 0 58 4,490 Surrey 1,463 0 56 3,263 East Sussex 543 0 41 832 West Sussex 704 0 50 1,187 Wiltshire 461 0 59 1,245 Avon 779 0 129 1,997 Cornwall 255 0 12 489 Devon 530 3 35 1,134 Gloucestershire 496 0 14 1,435 Isles of Scilly* 0 0 0 0 Somerset 434 0 0 1,277 England 47,725 2,493 2,404 106,030 * 1982 DATA. † 1980 DATA. ‡ 1981 DATA. ║ 1979 DATA.