Nursery Education

HC Deb 28 October 1986 vol 103 cc104-7W

Mr. Freud

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science, pursuant to his reply to the hon. Member for Cambridgeshire, North-East of 22 October, whether he will list the number of pupils aged under five years receiving education in January 1979 in (a) nursery classes of maintained primary schools, (b) nursery schools and (c) all under fives in maintained schools, together with the proportion these represent of the three and four-year-old population.

Mr. Dunn

The number of pupils aged under five receiving education in January 1979 in(a) nursery classes

Pupils under five receiving education in maintained schools in England—January 1979
Local education authority	Nursery classes	Nursery schools	All schools including nursery classes
	Pupils	As a percentage of population	Pupils	As a percentage of population	Pupils	As a percentage of population
Barking	842	22.2	0	0.0	1,954	51.6
Barnet	1,191	18.4	426	6.6	3,443	53.3
Bexley	271	5.2	175	3.4	938	18.1
Brent	1,365	22.4	282	4.6	3,309	54.3
Bromley	97	1.5	0	0.0	1,068	16.5
Croydon	165	2.1	316	4.0	2,371	30.0
Ealing	1,003	15.8	438	6.9	3,506	55.2
Enfield	1,136	18.7	0	0.0	2,785	45.7
Haringey	1,460	26.8	247	4.5	3,196	58.7
Harrow	565	12.4	92	2.0	1,418	31.1
Havering	233	4.0	0	0.0	2,113	36.3
Hillingdon	1,675	31.1	80	1.5	3,079	57.1
Hounslow	1,415	29.8	0	0.0	2,931	61.7
Kingston upon Thames	693	23.8	233	8.0	1,633	56.1
Merton	875	23.5	399	10.7	2,065	55.4
Newham	1,550	25.8	1,074	17.9	3,310	55.1
Redbridge	433	8.5	0	0.0	1,125	22.1
Richmond upon Thames	218	7.0	50	1.6	1,177	38.0
Sutton	323	8.4	220	5.7	564	14.7
Waltham Forest	1,368	23.8	433	7.5	2,983	51.8
Inner London	14,363	28.3	3,876	7.6	25,221	49.6
Birmingham	4,165	16.0	2,122	8.1	12,913	49.6
Coventry	1,329	14.8	274	3.0	4,337	48.2
Dudley	1,078	13.9	562	7.2	2,269	29.2
Sandwell	1,924	23.8	223	2.8	4,747	58.7
Solihull	1,001	18.6	0	0.0	2,730	50.8
Walsall	2,087	30.1	893	12.9	5,242	75.7
Wolverhampton	1,821	25.5	842	11.8	3,770	52.9
Knowsley	837	15.3	0	0.0	1,796	32.8
Liverpool	3,881	32.4	591	4.9	8,175	68.3
St. Helens	838	15.5	63	1.2	2,713	50.1
Sefton	1,432	19.7	291	4.0	4,019	55.3
Wirral	1,109	13.2	251	3.0	3,716	44.3
Bolton	1,375	19.8	566	8.2	4,223	60.8
Bury	393	8.0	138	2.8	2,060	42.0
Manchester	5,217	47.3	383	3.5	7,539	68.3
Oldham	949	15.9	182	3.0	3,105	51.9
Rochdale	697	11.5	812	13.3	3,401	55.9
Salford	1,338	21.8	582	9.5	3,831	62.4
Stockport	159	2.2	667	9.1	3,248	44.1
Tameside	1,077	19.3	307	5.5	3,053	54.8
Trafford	464	8.5	76	1.4	787	14.5
Wigan	1,161	12.9	247	2.7	4,344	48.2
Barnsley	1,972	34.8	320	5.6	3,321	58.5
Doncaster	2,608	34.9	0	0.0	5,174	69.2
Rotherham	2,080	30.4	362	5.3	3,720	54.4
Sheffield	2,828	23.1	658	5.4	6,045	49.4
Bradford	2,716	21.1	670	5.2	6,110	47.5
Calderdale	996	20.8	73	1.5	2,727	56.8
Kirklees	1,626	16.2	883	8.8	4,336	43.1
Leeds	2,805	15.6	284	1.6	7,305	40.5
Wakefield	2,511	30.8	503	6.2	4,860	59.6
Gateshead	920	17.1	121	2.3	2,756	51.3
Newcastle upon Tyne	1,455	22.6	533	8.3	3,965	61.6
North Tyneside	1,376	31.2	239	5.4	3,260	74.0
South Tyneside	566	14.8	817	21.4	2,567	67.3
Sunderland	1,402	17.3	786	9.7	4,740	58.4
Isles of Scilly	0	0.0	0	0.0	11	0.0
Avon	997	4.6	1,425	6.5	3,411	15.6
Bedfordshire	2,492	17.6	1,192	8.4	4,698	33.2
Berkshire	1,953	10.9	1,661	9.3	4,539	25.4
Buckinghamshire	1,351	9.3	498	3.4	2,943	20.2
Cambridgeshire	994	6.4	735	4.7	6,031	38.6
Cheshire	3,486	14.4	655	2.7	8,370	34.5
Cleveland	5,554	35.1	659	4.2	9,319	58.9

of maintained primary schools (b) nursery schools and (c) all under-fives in maintained schools, together with the proportion these represent of the three and four-year-old population are given in the table.

Local education authority	Nursery classes	Nursery schools	All schools including nursery classes
	Pupils	As a percentage of population	Pupils	As a percentage of population	Pupils	As a percentage of population
Cornwall	997	10.0	98	1.0	4,053	40.6
Cumbria	1,195	10.7	658	5.9	5,375	47.9
Derbyshire	3,118	13.7	975	4.3	8,040	35.4
Devon	1,112	5.2	91	0.4	4,373	20.3
Dorset	587	4.8	0	0.0	1,591	13.0
Durham	2,310	15.4	2,034	13.6	8,889	59.2
East Sussex	557	4.5	245	2.0	4,238	34.3
Essex	1,425	3.8	247	0.7	6,115	16.1
Gloucestershire	0	0.0	0	0.0	2,598	21.1
Hampshire	1,324	3.6	240	0.6	7,680	20.8
Hereford and Worcester	651	4.2	40	0.3	905	5.8
Hertfordshire	5,659	24.0	1,734	7.3	11,215	47.5
Humberside	3,938	17.6	926	4.1	8,858	39.6
Isle of Wight	121	5.0	0	0.0	993	41.2
Kent	1,306	3.6	84	0.2	4,634	12.6
Lancashire	1,296	3.8	3,010	8.8	14,866	43.4
Leicestershire	4,662	21.4	48	0.2	5,621	25.9
Lincolnshire	558	4.2	319	2.4	3,011	22.8
Norfolk	416	2.4	340	2.0	4,875	28.7
North Yorkshire	2,032	13.7	282	1.9	4,843	32.7
Northamptonshire	667	4.4	547	3.6	4,588	30.3
Northumberland	720	9.8	140	1.9	3,242	44.2
Nottinghamshire	8,764	35.7	465	1.9	11,829	48.2
Oxfordshire	783	5.8	780	5.7	1,985	14.6
Salop	647	7.2	220	2.4	2,126	23.6
Somerset	83	0.8	77	0.8	2.425	24.7
Staffordshire	3,840	14.6	1,839	7.0	9,888	37.5
Suffolk	1,323	8.6	122	0.8	3,919	25.5
Surey	2,109	9.3	483	2.1	4,578	20.2
Warwickshire	1,149	9.0	578	4.5	4,783	37.4
West Sussex	67	0.5	368	2.7	1,412	10.3
Wiltshire	94	0.7	0	0.0	2,677	19.0
England	161,771	14.1	48,477	4.2	428,640	37.4

Population used is the estimated population of three and four-year-olds in each LEA.