HC Deb 08 July 1986 vol 101 cc149-52W
Mr. Robin Cook

asked 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. Dunn

[pursuant to his reply, 8 April, 1986 c. 53–55]: The headings to the tables given did not adequately explain the definitions used. Information 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.
Number
CONSERVATIVE BETWEEN JUNE 1979 AND JUNE 1985
Greater London
Barnet 570
Bexley 260
Bromley 170
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

Number
East Sussex 380
Hereford & Worcester 160
Kent 120
Lincolnshire 260
Norfolk 310
Suffolk 260
Surrey 210
West Sussex 90
LABOUR BETWEEN JUNE 1979 AND JUNE 1985
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
Non-metropolitan counties
Durham 690
OTHER AUTHORITIES
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

Number
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

Conservative between June 1979 and June 1985
Pupil-teacher ratio in maintained primary schools Pupil-teacher ratio in maintained secondary schools Overall Pupil-teacher ratio
Barnet 19.9 14.3 15.9
Bexley 23.2 16.7 18.3
Bromley 23.3 16.4 18.3
Croydon 22.1 15.4 17.3
Ealing 20.1 14.6 16.4
Enfield 22.6 15.1 17.0
Harrow 21.0 14.3 16.7
Havering 22.7 15.6 17.3
Hillingdon 22.4 15.7 18.0
Kingston-upon-Thames 22.2 15.2 17.2
Merton 21.8 16.8 17.3
Redbridge 23.6 16.0 18.1
Sutton 24.9 16.8 19.1
Solihull 23.3 16.2 18.3
Sefton 23.3 16.6 18.4
Wirral 23.7 16.0 18.3
Bury 22.4 15.4 17.5
Trafford 22.9 16.4 18.3
Buckinghamshire 24.2 16.4 19.5
Dorset 23.7 17.1 18.5
East Sussex 23.1 17.1 18.3
Hereford and Worcester 24.1 17.4 18.6
Kent 23.6 17.0 19.0
Lincolnshire 24.4 17.2 18.9
Norfolk 22.1 16.5 18.4
Suffolk 22.1 17.0 18.3
Surrey 22.3 16.3 18.6
West Sussex 23.4 16.9 19.2
Labour between June 1979 and June 1985
Barking 21.1 15.4 17.0
Haringey 18.9 13.1 14.5
Hounslow 20.0 15.7 16.9
Newham 20.2 13.8 15.0
Inner London 17.1 13.1 13.6
Coventry 22.3 15.6 16.8
Sandwell 22.3 15.1 17.0
Wolverhampton 19.3 14.9 15.8
Knowsley 21.6 14.9 16.3
St. Helens 22.5 15.5 17.6
Manchester 22.1 14.3 16.2

Number
Staffordshire 430
Warwickshire 430
Wiltshire 200