§ Mr. Andrew F. Bennettasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what information he has as to how many (a) full-time and (b) part-time day nursery places are provided by each local authority and how this compares with each of the last five years.
§ Mrs. CurrieI have been asked to reply.
Information on whether the places are full-time or part- time is not collected centrally. The total numbers of day nursery places provided by each local authority in England are listed in the documents "Children's Day Care Facilities at 31 March, England" (A/F/6); copies for each of the four years from 1981 are in the Library.
Figures for 1985 are given in the table.
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Day nursery places for children under five provided by local authorities at 31 March 1985, England Local authority Number Cleveland 250 Cumbria 151 Durham 125 Northumberland 40 Gateshead 120 Newcastle upon Tyne 250 North Tyneside 90 South Tyneside 113 Sunderland 305 Humberside 50 North Yorkshire 136 Barnsley 0 Doncaster 25 Rotherham 0 Sheffield 352 Bradford 460 Calderdale 85 Kirklees 1186 Leeds 762 Wakefield 20 Cheshire 490 Lancashire 1,471 Bolton 188 Bury 110 Manchester 1,282 Oldham 243 Rochdale 320 Salford 451 Stockport 201 Tameside 450 Trafford 240 Wigan 246 Knowsley 350 Liverpool 908 Sefton 286 St. Helens 77 Wirral 210 Hereford and Worcester 117 Shropshire 0 Staffordshire 367 Warwickshire 0 Birmingham 1,488 Coventry 399 Dudley 0 Sandwell 170 Solihull 60 Walsall 120 Wolverhampton 225 Derbyshire 425 Leicestershire 565 Lincolnshire 80 Northamptonshire 123 Nottinghamshire 585 Bedfordshire 277 Berkshire 50 Buckinghamshire 110 Cambridgeshire 176 Essex 292 Hertfordshire 180 Norfolk 40 Oxfordshire 90 Suffolk 55 Camden 1645 Greenwich 355 Hackney 618 Hammersmith 528 Islington 680 Kensington 360 Lambeth 757 Lewisham 324 South wark 578 Tower Hamlets 415 Wandsworth 623 Westminster 469 City of London 28
Local authority Number Barking 130 Barnet 290 Bexley 45 Brent 877 Bromley 65 Croydon 179 Ealing 342 Enfield 135 Haringey 280 Harrow 110 Havering 170 Hillingdon 250 Hounslow 206 Kingston upon Thames 196 Merton 119 Newham 250 Redbridge 70 Richmond upon Thames 125 Sutton 64 Waltham Forest 280 Dorset 80 Hampshire 315 Isle of Wight 0 Kent 115 Surrey 205 East Sussex 101 West Sussex 0 Wiltshire 0 Avon 568 Cornwall 0 Devon 18 Gloucestershire 32 Somerset 70 England total 28,904 1 Estimated from information from earlier years.