§ Mr. ThurnhamTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will provide the latest available figures of the number of children with statements under the Education Act 1981 in each local authority in England, Scotland and Wales.
§ Mr. DunnThe number of pupils with statements of special educational need attending maintained primary, middle and secondary schools and special schools in each local education authority in England in January 1987 is given in the table. Information on the number of pupils with statements of special educational need in Scotland and Wales is the responsibility of my right hon. Friends the Secretaries of State for Scotland and for Wales.
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Pupils with statements in each LEA1 January 1987 Pupils Barking 272 Barnet 531 Bexley 525 Brent 492 Bromley 761 Croydon 835 Ealing 597 Enfield 503 Haringey 431 Harrow 396 Havering 484 Hillingdon 558 Hounslow 721 Kingston upon Thames 324 Merton 316 Newham 680 Redbridge 499 Richmond upon Thames 237 Sutton 394 Waltham Forest 893 Inner London 8,386 Birmingham 3,673 Coventry 1,052 Dudley 694 Sandwell 1,022 Solihull 410 Walsall 760 Wolverhampton 736 Knowsley 654 Liverpool 1,974 St. Helens 557 Sefton 803 Wirral 1,170 Bolton 632 Bury 432 Manchester 2,024 Oldham 735 Rochdale 713 Salford 940 Stockport 1,024 Tameside 585 Trafford 673
Pupils Wigan 838 Barnsley 426 Doncaster 1,035 Rotherham 770 Sheffield 1,427 Bradford 1,388 Calderdale 411 Kirklees 1,003 Leeds 2,526 Wakefield 816 Gateshead 588 Newcastle-upon-Tyne 1,036 North Tyneside 659 South Tyneside 402 Sunderland 882 Isles of Scilly 0 Avon 4,450 Bedfordshire 1,298 Berkshire 2,186 Buckinghamshire 2,459 Cambridgeshire 1,753 Cheshire 3,476 Cleveland 2,287 Cornwall 1,173 Cumbria 1,306 Derbyshire 3,135 Devon 3,107 Dorset 1,777 Durham 1,381 East Sussex 1,964 Essex 4,371 Gloucestershire 1,409 Hampshire 4,836 Hereford and Worcester 1,880 Hertfordshire 3,294 Humberside 2,129 Isle of Wight 352 Kent 4,882 Lancashire 4,207 Leicestershire 1,734 Lincolnshire 1,736 Norfolk 1,729 North Yorkshire 1,726 Northamptonshire 1,856 Northumberland 774 Nottinghamshire 2,597 Oxfordshire 1,040 Shropshire 1,353 Somerset 1,398 Staffordshire 2,576 Suffolk 1,708 Surrey 3,361 Warwickshire 1,633 West Sussex 1,522 Wiltshire 1,852 England 141,962 1 Excludes independent schools and nursery schools.