§ Mr. Robin Cookasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science (1) if he will publish in the Official Report the figures for the number of pre-school places per 1,000 of the under-five population in education authorities grouped by political control on the classification used by the Secretary of State for the Environment in his reply to the hon. Member for Blackburn (Mr. Straw) on 15 January, Official Report, column 577;
(2) if he will publish in the Official Report a table listing education authorities by the number of pre-school places they provide per 1,000 of the under-five population.
§ Mr. DunnInformation on the number of places is not available. The number of children aged under five years attending maintained nursery and primary school per 1,000 of the three and four-year-old population in January 1985 was as follows:
Number of pre-school children per 1,000 of the population aged three and four at January 1985.
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Conservative Number Greater London Barnet 570 Bexley 260 Bromley 170
Number Croydon 390 Ealing 450 Enfield 540 Harrow 320 Havering 370 Hillingdon 620 Kingston upon Thames 550 Merton 630 Redbridge 240 Sutton 170 West Midlands Solihull 650 Merseyside Sefton 620 Wirral 480 Greater Manchester Bury 490 Trafford 190 Non Metropolitan Counties Buckinghamshire 180 Dorset 140 East Sussex 380 Hereford & Worcester 160 Kent 120 Lincolnshire 260 Norfolk 310 Suffolk 260 Surrey 210 West Sussex 90
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Labour Number Greater London Barking 690 Haringey 740 Hounslow 660 Newham 740 West Midlands Coventry 560 Sandwell 710 Wolverhampton 730 Merseyside Knowsley 550 St. Helens 560 Greater Manchester Manchester 690 Salford 830 Tameside 700 Wigan 590 South Yorkshire Barnsley 680 Doncaster 720 Rotherham 540 Sheffield 600 West Yorkshire Wakefield 680 Tyne and Wear Gateshead 640 Newcastle upon Tyne 700 North Tyneside 830 South Tyneside 820 Sunderland 690 ILEA 510
Number Non Metropolitan Counties Durham 690
No overall control Number Greater London Brent 610 Richmond upon Thames 400 Waltham Forest 580 West Midlands Birmingham 620 Dudley 420 Walsall 880 Merseyside Liverpool 750 Greater Manchester Bolton 640 Oldham 630 Rochdale 570 Stockport 460 West Yorkshire Bradford 520 Calderdale 610 Kirklees 640 Leeds 550 Non Metropolitan Counties Avon 480 Bedfordshire 320 Berkshire 250 Cambridgeshire 410 Cheshire 380 Cleveland 700 Cornwall 510 Cumbria 530 Derbyshire 470 Devon 210 Essex 180 Gloucestershire 340 Hampshire 200 Hertfordshire 490 Humberside 500 Isle of Wight 400 Lancashire 480 Leicestershire 300 North Yorkshire 410 Northamptonshire 480 Northumberland 540 Nottinghamshire 520 Oxfordshire 170 Shropshire 300 Somerset 340 Staffordshire 430 Warwickshire 430 Wiltshire 200