§ Mrs. ClwydTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science whether he will list, by local education authority, the proportion of the total number of under fives in pre-school education represented by(a) three-year-olds and (b) four-year-olds.
§ Mr. DunnThe information requested for each local education authority in England in January 1987 is given in the table:
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Pupils aged 3 and 4 as a proportion of the total pupils1 2 under five attending maintained nursery and primary schools January 1987 Percentage of pupils Age 3 Age 41 Barking 43 57 Barnet 42 47 Bexley 29 71 Brent 49 49 Bromley 8 92 Croydon 19 81 Ealing 48 45 Enfield 41 58 Haringey 51 42 Harrow 26 74 Havering 11 89 Hillingdon 42 57 Hounslow 55 43 Kingston upon Thames 41 52 Merton 46 46 Newham 52 40 Redbridge 22 75 Richmond upon Thames 33 61 Sutton 45 52 Waltham Forest 45 53 Inner London 49 45 Birmingham 43 50 Coventry 36 59 Dudley 42 53 Sandwell 49 41 Solihull 45 54 Walsall 52 37 Wolverhampton 53 40 Knowsley 47 43 Liverpool 45 42 St. Helens 40 54 Sefton 37 53 Wirral 34 62 Bolton 44 45 Bury 33 63 Manchester 51 42 Oldham 49 51 Rochdale 46 51 Salford 54 38 Stockport 27 67 Tameside 43 45 Trafford 37 63 Wigan 40 56 Barnsley 48 45 Doncaster 56 44 Rotherham 48 50 Sheffield 47 47 Bradford 43 53
Percentage of pupils Age 3 Age 41 Calderdale 46 54 Kirklees 43 53 Leeds 42 53 Wakefield 49 45 Gateshead 45 47 Newcastle-upon-Tyne 50 42 North Tyneside 52 38 South Tyneside 50 41 Sunderland 51 47 Isles of Scilly 8 92 Avon 27 69 Bedfordshire 45 49 Berkshire 43 53 Buckinghamshire 28 71 Cambridgeshire 26 72 Cheshire 32 61 Cleveland 47 44 Cornwall 25 72 Cumbria 32 62 Derbyshire 36 60 Devon 25 73 Dorset 24 75 Durham 47 46 East Sussex 18 81 Essex 18 81 Gloucestershire 3— 100 Hampshire 16 82 Hereford and Worcester 12 87 Hertfordshire 44 55 Humberside 40 56 Isle of Wight 11 87 Kent 21 76 Lancashire 27 66 Leicestershire 39 57 Lincolnshire 18 81 Norfolk 15 85 North Yorkshire 31 65 Northamptonshire 32 67 Northumberland 34 59 Nottinghamshire 47 47 Oxfordshire 33 66 Shropshire 28 71 Somerset 2 97 Staffordshire 38 60 Suffolk 27 72 Surrey 31 67 Warwickshire 31 65 West Sussex 24 73 Wiltshire 8 91 1 Ages at 31 August 1986. Excludes pupils aged 4 at 31 August 1986 who became 5 by 31 December 1986. 2 Full and part-time pupils. 3 Less than 1 per cent.