HC Deb 12 January 1987 vol 108 cc32-3W
Mr. Rathbone

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what was the number of children aged three to four years attending nursery schools at the latest date, broken down for each local authority; and what was the number for the last five years.

Mr. Dunn

The number of children aged three or four attending maintained nursery schools in each local education authority in England in January 1986 (the latest date for which figures are available) and for the preceding five years is given in the table below. Pupils aged three or four in nursery classes in maintained primary schools have been excluded from these figures.

January each year
1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986
Wakefield 440 437 431 465 454 468
Gateshead 99 35 43 41 41 50
Newcastle-upon-Tyne 388 376 408 427 427 412
North Tyneside 189 187 256 260 255 275
South Tyneside 671 539 663 652 717 597
Sunderland 639 715 852 856 863 713
Isles of Scilly n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a
Avon 1,336 1,200 1,259 1,258 1,207 1,250
Bedfordshire 1,127 1,205 1,279 1,280 1,317 1,228
Berkshire 1,649 1,646 1,710 1,770 1,878 1,877
Buckinghamshire 488 497 504 516 513 514
Cambridgeshire 520 532 560 563 554 593
Cheshire 614 663 698 706 743 748
Cleveland 349 355 368 309 231 117
Cornwall 83 88 85 85 87 76
Cumbria 504 474 479 560 508 556
Derbyshire 908 961 1,010 1,013 1,015 995
Devon 145 139 137 137 143 238
Dorset n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a
Durham 1,796 1,888 2,018 2,072 2,055 2,038
East Sussex 226 236 233 223 245 269
Essex 220 219 238 229 242 237
Gloucestershire n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a
Hampshire 209 234 226 220 234 236
Hereford and Worcester n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a
Hertfordshire 1,536 1,598 1,651 1,656 1,676 1,677
Humberside 851 847 908 832 817 855
Isle of Wight n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a
Kent 63 65 72 52 72 62
Lancashire 2,399 2,379 2,513 2,627 2,683 2,630
Leicestershire 48 47 48 49 49 49
Lincolnshire 314 331 349 361 324 254
Norfolk 320 291 329 318 336 353
North Yorkshire 260 267 287 295 285 284
Northamptonshire 426 453 455 463 457 469
Northumberland 98 89 127 101 117 127
Nottinghamshire 374 383 399 473 446 441
Oxfordshire 775 807 740 527 483 487
Shropshire 218 221 136 161 147 156
Somerset 25 28 27 n/a n/a n/a
Staffordshire 1,668 1,647 1,718 1,766 1,760 1,765
Suffolk 119 119 142 145 138 150
Surrey 452 453 472 467 481 369
Warwickshire 522 528 561 594 604 662
West Sussex 372 396 419 414 428 419
Wiltshire n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a
Total 40,355 40,648 42,359 42,265 42,620 42,201
1Full and part time pupils. Ages at the previous 31 August.
n/a There were no nursery schools in these local authority areas in the years indicated.