§ Mr. Freudasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science whether he will list for each local education authority in England at the latest date for which figures are available the number and proportion of three and four-year-olds attending (a) nursery classes, (b) nursery schools, (c) play groups, and (d) total pre-school provision; and what are the waiting lists in each case.
§ Mr. Dunn[pursuant to his reply, 25 July 1986, c. 523.]
The number of pupils aged under five receiving education in January 1986 in (a) nursery classes of maintained primary schools (b) nursery schools and (c) all under-lives in maintained schools, together with the proportion these represent of the three and four-year-old population, are given in the table.
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Pupils under 5 receiving education in maintained schools in England—January 1986 LEA Nursery Classes Nursery Schools All Schools including Nursery Classes Pupils As a per cent, of Population Pupils As a per cent, of Population Pupils As a per cent. of Population Barking 1,395 36.7 0 .0 2,587 68.1 Barnet 1,707 23.4 495 6.8 4,112 56.3 Bexley 435 8.4 175 3.4 1,355 26.1 Brent 2,036 29.9 268 3.9 4,342 63.9 Bromley 97 1.5 0 .0 1,140 17.3 Croydon 206 2.4 411 4.8 3,151 37.1 Ealing 2,139 27.1 610 7.7 3,688 46.7 Enfield 1,381 20.9 0 .0 3,339 51.5 Haringey 1,967 37.1 213 4.0 3,631 68.5 Harrow 795 16.2 0 .0 1,555 31.7 Havering 224 4.1 0 .0 1,987 36.8 Hillingdon 2,501 42.4 117 2.0 2,949 50.0 Hounslow 3,734 69.1 0 .0 3,779 70.0 Kingston upon Thames 691 22.3 238 7.7 1,632 52.6 Merton 1,321 32.2 173 4.2 2,394 58.4 Newham 2,985 47.4 979 15.5 4,735 75.2 Redbridge 450 8.5 0 .0 1,253 23.6 Richmond upon Thames 498 14.2 68 1.9 1,543 44.1 Sutton 445 10.9 240 5.9 730 17.8 Waltham Forest 1,953 33.1 292 4.9 3,091 52.4 Inner London 17,767 32.3 4,152 7.5 29,362 53.4 Birmingham 6,465 23.4 2,245 8.1 17,577 63.7 Coventry 1,454 17.7 464 5.7 4,512 55.0 Dudley 1,737 23.5 471 6.4 3,224 43.6 Sandwell 3,196 40.5 208 2.6 5,938 75.2 Solihull 1,253 27.2 0 .0 2,640 57.4 Walsall 3,150 47.7 770 11.7 6,066 91.9 Woverhampton 2,867 43.4 810 12.3 4,747 71.9 Knowsley 1,736 33.4 0 .0 3,254 62.6 Liverpool 5,571 46.8 548 4.6 10,184 85.6 St. Helens 1,307 27.2 76 1.6 2,901 60.4 Sefton 1,677 24.0 316 4.5 4,152 59.3 Wirral 1,315 15.3 219 2.5 4,157 48.3 Bolton 2,084 28.9 601 8.3 4,871 67.7 Bury 641 14.2 142 3.2 2,194 48.8 Manchester 5,810 50.5 540 4.7 8,322 72.4 Oldham 1,916 30.9 0 .0 3,883 62.6 Rochdale 784 12.9 885 14.5 3,678 60.3 Salford 2,137 36.8 870 15.0 4,895 84.4 Stockport 213 2.9 779 10.7 3,149 43.1 Tameside 1,900 34.5 324 5.9 4,045 73.5 Trafford 620 11.7 0 .0 991 18.7 Wigan 1,773 21.6 199 2.4 4,622 56.4 Barnsley 2,615 45.9 173 3.0 3,735 65.5 Doncaster 2,999 38.9 0 .0 5,505 71.5 Rotherham 2,354 34.6 352 5.2 3,819 56.2 Sheffield 3,871 34.0 722 6.3 6,915 60.7 Bradford 3,997 28.0 510 3.6 7,821 54.7 The Department does not collect information on the number of pupils aged under five on waiting lists for preschool education.
Places in play groups and day nurseries and places with child minders are provided by local authority social services departments and not by local education authorities. Some information is collected by the Department of Health and Social Security, but riot precisely in the form requested. The number of premises and places, the number of places per 1,000 children aged under five and the waiting lists in each authority in England are given in "Children's Day Care Facilities at 31 March 1984, England" (A/F84/6), copies of which are available in the Library.
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LEA Nursery Classes Nursery Schools All Schools including Nursery Classes Pupils As a per cent. of Population Pupils As a per cent. of Population Pupils As a per cent. of Population Calderdale 1,314 26.8 87 1.8 3,028 61.8 Kirklees 3,220 31.0 699 6.7 5,987 57.6 Leeds 5,079 29.7 275 1.6 9,658 56.5 Wakefield 3,091 38.6 484 6.1 5,367 67.1 Gateshead 1,575 31.5 64 1.3 3,161 63.2 Newcastle upon Tyne 2,219 33.6 586 8.9 4,892 74.1 North Tyneside 2,092 44.5 315 6.7 4,058 86.3 South Tyneside 1,216 32.9 688 18.6 3,174 85.8 Sunderland 1,992 23.7 927 11.0 5,553 66.1 Isles of Scilly 0 .0 0 .0 6 .0 Avon 1,832 8.2 1,461 6.6 10,061 45.1 Bedfordshire 3,201 21.1 1,320 8.7 5,370 35.3 Berkshire 2,765 14.2 1,938 9.9 4,990 25.6 Buckinghamshire 1,576 9.4 515 3.1 3,045 18.1 Cambridgeshire 1,309 8.0 635 3.9 6,586 40.4 Cheshire 4,122 17.2 819 3.4 8,991 37.6 Cleveland 7,862 49.4 156 1.0 11,125 70.0 Cornwall 1,265 12.8 94 .9 4,611 46.6 Cumbria 1,539 13.5 694 6.1 6,019 52.8 Derbyshire 4,644 20.5 1,129 5.0 11,334 50.2 Devon 1,635 7.5 247 1.1 4,417 20.2 Dorset 805 6.3 0 .0 1,797 14.1 Durham 3,270 21.5 2,266 14.9 10,075 66.3 East Sussex 660 4.8 296 2.1 4,988 36.1 Essex 1,895 5.0 249 .7 6,988 18.3 Gloucestershire 0 .0 0 .0 3,807 31.2 Hampshire 1,599 4.2 260 .7 7,739 20.2 Hereford and Worcester 997 6.1 0 .0 2,402 14.6 Hertfordshire 5,876 23.6 1,701 6.8 11,745 47.2 Humberside 5,758 26.8 910 4.2 10,761 50.1 Isle of Wight 103 4.3 0 .0 897 37.4 Kent 1,830 4.9 84 .2 4,602 12.4 Lancashire 2,216 6.3 3,358 9.5 16,540 46.7 Leicestershire 5,113 22.1 50 .2 7,122 30.8 Lincolnshire 722 5.3 284 2.1 3,571 26.3 Norfolk 470 2.8 393 2.4 5,147 31.0 North Yorkshire 2,316 14.9 315 2.0 6,528 42.1 Northamptonshire 1,823 12.3 503 3.4 7,031 47.5 Northumberland 1,562 20.3 136 1.8 4,026 52.3 Nottinghamshire 10,586 43.6 536 2.2 13,073 53.8 Oxfordshire 1,245 90 50.2 3.6 2,317 16.8 Shropshire 920 9.4 160 1.6 3,093 31.6 Somerset 81 .8 0 .0 3,436 32.7 Staffordshire 3,986 15.2 1,844 7.0 11,165 42.5 Suffolk 1,867 121 16.7 1.1 4,340 28.2 Surrey 2,231 9.7 404 1.8 4,638 20.2 Warwickshire 1,181 10.1 726 6.2 5,499 47.0 West Sussex 84 .5 451 2.9 1,348 8.8 Wiltshire 184 1.3 0 .0 2,303 16.5 ENGLAND 223,097 19.0 49,383 4.2 508,623 43.3 Population used is the estimated population of 3 and 4-year-olds in each LEA.