§ Mrs. ClwydTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many three and four-year-old children in each local education authority area in England are in(a) full-time and (b) part-time nursery education in private nursery schools; and what percentage of the estimated three and four-year-old population in each local education authority area this represents for the last year for which figures are available.
§ Mrs. ClwydTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many three and four-year-old children in each local education authority in England are in(a) full-time and (b) part-time nursery education, in nursery schools and nursery classes of primary schools, excluding any children in reception classes in primary schools and any children in private schools; what percentage of the estimated three and four-year-old population in each local education authority area this represents; and what is the average hourly attendance, per week, of these children in (i) full-time and (ii) part-time nursery education, for the last year for which figures are available.
§ Mr. DunnThe information requested on the numbers and percentages of children in maintained nursery education in January 1987 is given in the table. Information on the average hourly attendance of these pupils is not collected centrally.
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Full-time and part-time pupils aged three and four in nursery schools and classes—January 1987 Full-time Part-time Percentage2 Barking 95 861 24.5 Barnet 148 1,706 24.7
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Full-time Part-time Percentage2 Bexley 24 578 11.6 Brent 355 1,781 30.1 Bromley 0 122 1.9 Croydon 90 507 7.0 Ealing 19 2,310 28.4 Enfield 0 1,383 21.0 Haringey 419 1,427 32.4 Harrow 0 789 16.1 Havering 1 225 4.4 Hillingdon 3 2,592 43.3 Hounslow 1,317 2,294 64.5 Kingston upon Thames 71 777 27.4 Merton 48 1,321 32.6 Newham 136 3,404 51.3 Redbridge 21 426 8.4 Richmond upon Thames 13 503 14.3 Sutton 0 665 15.8 Waltham Forest 148 2,050 36.6 Inner London 8,070 11,833 33.7 Birmingham 2,722 5,114 27.2 Coventry 190 1,449 19.7 Dudley 151 1,989 28.9 Sandwell 363 2,595 37.0 Solihull 0 1,330 30.2 Walsall 161 3,026 48.3 Wolverhampton 0 3,432 52.0 Knowsley 17 1,551 30.2 Liverpool 1,011 3,892 40.2 St. Helens 6 1,184 25.3 Sefton 63 1,537 23.2 Wirral 32 1,435 17.1 Bolton 531 1,701 30.2 Bury 203 510 15.8 Manchester 3,906 2,269 50.2 Oldham 703 1,226 30.6 Rochdale 182 1,500 27.6 Salford 1,920 724 44.1 Stockport 229 670 12.5 Tameside 97 1,706 32.2 Trafford 8 593 11.3 Wigan 25 1,828 22.6 Barnsley 41 2,499 44.6 Doncaster 62 3,004 39.3 Rotherham 380 2,241 38.5 Sheffield 585 3,739 37.6 Bradford 461 3,933 30.3 Calderdale 493 798 25.8 Kirklees 10 3,627 35.0 Leeds 420 4,709 29.5 Wakefield 118 3,300 42.2 Gateshead 48 1,354 28.6 Newcastle-upon-Tyne 1,191 1,259 36.6 North Tyneside 111 1,937 45.5 South Tyneside 77 1,477 43.2 Sunderland 145 2,677 33.2 Avon 1,502 1,399 13.0 Bedfordshire 683 3,619 28.3 Berkshire 261 4,438 23.9 Buckinghamshire 0 2,095 12.8 Cambridgeshire 202 1,644 11.5 Cheshire 114 3,741 16.3 Cleveland 13 7,200 45.4 Cornwall3 41 1,246 13.4 Cumbria 154 1,744 16.8 Derbyshire 856 4,610 24.3 Devon 245 1,700 9.0
Full-time Part-time Percentage2 Dorset 0 739 6.0 Durham 324 4,674 33.3 East Sussex 7 940 6.9 Essex 193 1,864 5.5 Gloucestershire1 0 0 0.0 Hampshire 16 1,706 4.5 Hereford and Worcester 150 753 5.6 Hertfordshire 178 7,213 30.0 Humberside 1,015 5,351 29.9 Isle of Wight 15 88 4.3 Kent 5 1,792 4.9 Lancashire 174 4,638 13.4 Leicestershire 1,493 3,483 21.4 Lincolnshire 151 768 6.9 Norfolk 5 825 5.2 North Yorkshire 275 2,171 15.9 Northamptonshire 380 1,943 15.9 Northumberland 133 1,373 20.1 Nottinghamshire 370 9,942 42.4 Oxfordshire 164 1,568 12.4 Shropshire 2 1,095 11.3 Somerset 47 25 0.7 Staffordshire 2,430 3,177 21.3 Suffolk 16 1,999 13.4 Surrey 83 2,437 11.3 Warwickshire 28 1,689 14.8 West Sussex 25 478 3.4 Wiltshire 2 201 1.4 ENGLAND 39,392 211,737 21.3 1This authority has no nursery schools or classes. 2Total number of three and four year old children in nursery schools and classes as a percentage of the estimated three and four year old population. 3Includes Isles of Scilly.