§ Mr. PikeTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will list, by sex, the number of children in each local education authority who receive nursery education.
§ Mr. DunnThe number of boys and girls under live in January 1987 attending maintained nursery schools or nursery classes in primary schools in each local education authority in England is as follows:
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Boys and girls in nursery schools and classes in England— January 19871 Boys Girls Barking 512 444 Barnet 1,196 1,111 Bexley 307 305 Brent 1,133 1,077 Bromley 60 62 Croydon 315 293 Ealing 1,381 1,290 Enfield 719 696 Haringey 1,064 1,007 Harrow 410 379 Havering 121 105 Hillingdon 1,329 1,288 Hounslow 1,892 1,784 Kingston Upon Thames 515 441 Merton 800 760 Newham 1,921 1,972 Redbridge 249 231 Richmond Upon Thames 327 279 Sutton 327 356 Waltham Forest 1,158 1,110 Inner London 11,113 10,766 Birmingham 4,545 4,416 Coventry 978 890 Dudley 1,154 1,139 Sandwell 1,862 1,689 Solihull 702 688 Walsall 1,991 1,380 Wolverhampton 1,941 1,865 Knowsley 980 940 Liverpool 3,156 2,988 St. Helens 695 678 Sefton 1,044 990 Wirral 836 778 Bolton 1,446 1,334 Bury 398 403 Manchester 3,464 3,351 Oldham 993 936 Rochdale 910 870 Salford 1,582 1,491 Stockport 548 530 Tameside 1,139 1,153 Trafford 312 293
Boys Girls Wigan 1,043 989 Barnsley 1,425 1,358 Doncaster 1,557 1,518 Rotherham 1,380 1,329 Sheffield 2,445 2,282 Bradford 2,450 2,286 Calderdale 667 624 Kirklees 2,038 1,841 Leeds 2,830 2,753 Wakefield 1,916 1,853 Gateshead 830 815 Newcastle Upon Tyne 1,421 1,416 North Tyneside 1,197 1,217 South Tyneside 927 925 Sunderland 1,528 1,431 Isles of Scilly2 0 0 Avon 1,687 1,591 Bedfordshire 2,371 2,211 Berkshire 2,549 2,352 Buckinghamshire 1,130 1,013 Cambridgeshire 997 955 Cheshire 2,370 2,413 Cleveland 4,195 3,941 Cornwall 775 629 Cumbria 1,176 1,084 Derbyshire 3,115 2,815 Devon 1,065 998 Dorset 387 367 Durham 2,949 2,709 East Sussex 543 453 Essex 1,105 1,072 Gloucestershire2 0 0 Hampshire 972 832 Hereford and Worcester 460 449 Hertfordshire 3,834 3,668 Humberside 3,510 3,310 Isle of Wight 72 56 Kent 993 919 Lancashire 3,049 2,903 Leicestershire 2,650 2,552 Lincolnshire 491 476 Norfolk 448 422 North Yorkshire 1,389 1,305 Northamptonshire 1,252 1,181 Northumberland 917 899 Nottinghamshire 5,604 5,484 Oxfordshire 915 832 Salop 565 557 Somerset 57 27 Staffordshire 2,925 2,887 Suffolk 1,077 982 Surrey 1,330 1,292 Warwickshire 1,035 918 West Sussex 300 246 Wiltshire 114 127 Total 141,552 134,622 1 Full and part-time pupils. 2 These authorities have no nursery schools or classes.