§ Mrs. ClwydTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will list the number of classes of 31 pupils and over in the maintained primary sector in each education authority for each year since 1979, showing what percentage such classes are of the total number of classes in each authority.
§ Mr. DunnThe information requested for each local education authority in England for the years 1979, 1983 and 1987 is given in the table. Information for all of the other years could be provided only at disproportionate cost. The analyses relate to classes taught by one teacher on a selected period within the day of the census count in January of each year and may not be representative of the pattern of classes over the academic year as a whole.
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1979 1983 1987 January of each year Classes Percentage Classes Percentage Classes Percentage Inner London 840 11.1 199 3.0 99 1.7 Birmingham 1,496 38.6 1,242 38.0 867 27.1 Coventry 308 24.3 243 24.1 155 16.5 Dudley 497 46.5 219 21.9 215 22.4 Sandwell 457 35.9 242 21.6 196 19.3 Solihull 264 30.4 148 21.9 157 25.7 Walsall 217 19.1 73 7.1 97 10.9 Wolverhampton 217 21.0 57 5.9 86 9.9 Knowsley 224 29.5 123 20.0 59 9.8 Liverpool 335 15.6 230 12.8 186 10.8 St. Helens 259 32.6 156 22.8 112 19.2 Sefton 399 34.6 175 17.8 175 19.7 Wirral 382 29.8 268 23.0 140 13.3 Bolton 456 46.1 280 33.0 276 34.4 Bury 212 31.4 141 24.5 121 23.1 Manchester 283 15.1 274 18.7 201 14.5 Oldham 340 40.7 227 29.2 219 31.2 Rochdale 196 25.7 127 18.4 148 25.9 Salford 279 28.6 97 11.4 111 14.7 Stockport 498 50.4 194 22.1 187 22.3 Tameside 322 37.8 178 23.2 155 23.4 Trafford 193 24.3 155 25.5 164 28.7 Wigan 385 29.0 226 20.7 215 22.8 Barnsley 230 25.2 66 8.3 55 7.7 Doncaster 171 14.3 82 7.7 85 9.0 Rotherham 324 31.6 147 16.3 68 7.8 Sheffield 370 17.0 131 7.4 100 6.4 Bradford 209 14.4 121 9.9 130 11.1 Calderdale 240 30.3 99 13.4 129 20.0 Kirklees 509 36.6 300 23.9 200 16.5 Leeds 787 37.9 432 24.2 311 19.4 Wakefield 317 29.2 170 19.1 139 15.5 Gateshead 103 11.7 36 4.5 23 3.1 Newcastle-upon-Tyne 62 6.3 32 3.8 101 14.2 North Tyneside 69 10.3 39 6.5 13 1.9 South Tyneside 62 9.1 24 4.3 41 7.6 Sunderland 321 26.1 156 14.4 114 10.7 Isles of Stilly1 1 10.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 Avon 1,059 37.3 898 34.2 976 39.0 Bedfordshire 316 19.3 266 19.9 248 19.0 Berkshire 671 29.4 479 23.1 512 27.0 Buckinghamshire 645 28.0 598 27.8 717 36.9 Cambridgeshire 542 25.5 468 24.5 448 24.1 Cheshire 1,027 29.1 722 23.1 875 30.6 Cleveland 550 24.0 230 11.0 241 12.4 Cornwall 477 32.2 381 28.0 355 26.6 Cumbria 391 21.7 174 10.6 180 11.9 Derbyshire 1,020 30.9 642 21.8 556 20.3 Devon 923 31.5 637 23.7 526 20.0 Dorset 536 33.6 388 28.1 412 31.7 Durham 454 18.4 361 17.7 358 18.9 East Sussex 520 27.7 291 17.0 420 26.2 Essex 1,753 35.0 1,114 24.4 968 22.2 Gloucestershire 604 34.4 416 27.0 397 27.6 Hampshire 1,795 34.2 1,367 29.9 1,031 23.6 Hereford and Worcester 611 32.5 555 33.7 409 24.7 Hertfordshire 824 24.7 646 21.6 529 18.6 Humberside 544 17.6 272 9.9 309 12.3 Isle of Wight 82 32.3 44 19.5 54 24.3 Kent 1,668 34.4 1,374 33 1,234 30.6 Lancashire 1,844 37.8 1,260 29.3 1,249 31.2 Leicestershire 684 21.5 489 17.1 412 15.1 Lincolnshire 574 28.0 521 30.2 511 31.5 Norfolk 545 20.6 394 16.1 368 16.7 North Yorkshire 554 23.6 429 20.9 340 17.3 Northamptonshire 561 29.9 298 17.1 315 19.2
1979 1983 1987 January of each year Classes Percentage Classes Percentage Classes Percentage Northumberland 257 31.5 193 27.2 220 31.1 Nottinghamshire 1,291 37.4 403 12.5 225 7 8 Oxfordshire 394 26.2 339 26.2 251 19.4 Shropshire 422 30.3 203 15.5 165 13.6 Somerset 463 36.2 395 34.7 324 27.9 Staffordshire 1,017 26.5 439 13.1 523 18.0 Suffolk 404 22.8 205 12 6 186 11.9 Surrey 777 22.4 522 17.6 430 16.2 Warwickshire 527 26.2 412 23.6 335 22.3 West Sussex 660 34.4 462 25.6 366 20.6 Wiltshire 482 26.2 394 24.4 266 17.1 England 44,899 27.4 28,792 19.9 25,837 19.2 1 In 1983 and 1987 there were no classes of 31 or more pupils.