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13. Mr. James Lamond

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will list the local authorities which have, in the last three years, increased their provision of places in nursery schools and nursery classes.

18. Mrs. Clwyd

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will list the local authorities which have, in the last three years, increased their provision of places in nursery schools and nursery classes.

19. Mr. Flannery a

sked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will list the local authorities which have, in the last three years, increased their provision of places in nursery schools and nursery classes.

21. Mr. Litherland

asked the Secretary of Stale for Education and Science if he will list the local authorities which have, in the last three years, increased their provision of places in nursery schools and nursery classes.

Mr. Dunn

The Department collects information only on the number of pupils in nursery schools and classes. Nursery pupil numbers have increased between 1983 and 1986 in the following local education authorities in England:

Local education authorities where the number of children under five attending nursery schools and nursery classes increased between January 1983 and January 1986
Barking ILEA
Barnet Birmingham
Bexley Coventry
Brent Dudley
Croydon Sandwell
Ealing Solihull
Enfield Wolverhampton
Hillingdon Knowsley
Hounslow Liverpool
Kingston-upon-Thames St. Helens
Newham Sefton
Sutton Wirral

Bolton Cornwall
Bury Cumbria
Manchester Derbyshire
Oldham Devon
Salford Dorset
Stockport Durham
Tameside East Sussex
Trafford Essex
Wigan Hampshire
Barnsley Hereford and Worcester
Doncaster Hertfordshire
Rotherham Humberside
Sheffield Kent
Bradford Lancashire
Calderdale Leicestershire
Kirklees Lincolnshire
Leeds Norfolk
Wakefield North Yorkshire
Newcastle upon Tyne Northamptonshire
North Tyneside Northumberland
Sunderland Nottinghamshire
Avon Oxfordshire
Bedfordshire Salop
Berkshire Suffolk
Buckinghamshire Surrey
Cambridgeshire Warwickshire
Cheshire West Sussex
Cleveland Wiltshire