§ Ms. HarmanTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will publish in theOfficial Report a table ranking education authorities by the number of pre-school places they provide per 1,000 of the under-five population.
§ Mr. ButcherInformation on the number of places is not collected centrally. The number of pupils under five on roll in maintained nursery and primary schools per 1,000 of the estimated three and four-year-old population for each local education authority in England in January 1988, ranked in order, is given in the following table.
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Pupils aged under five in maintained nursery and primary schools January 1988 Local education authority Number per 1,000 of the population aged 3 and 4 Walsall 911 Salford 856 North Tyneside 837 Liverpool 830 South Tyneside 827 Sandwell 790 Tameside 750 Manchester 747 Doncaster 737 Cleveland 730 Wolverhampton 722 Newcastle upon Tyne 697 Wakefield 696 Knowsley 693 Hounslow 692 Bolton 683 Haringey 680 Durham 678 Sunderland 675 Barnsley 669 Oldham 652 Birmingham 651 Gateshead 649 Solihull 630 Barking and Dagenham 629 Rochdale 624 St. Helens 621 Sheffield 616 Calderdale 612 Ealing 609 Sefton 607 Newham 593 Brent 592 Wigan 589 Kirklees 587 Merton 587 Rotherham 565 Leeds 560 Bury 554 Northumberland 551 Coventry 551 Bradford 549 Nottinghamshire 545 Cumbria 544 Barnet 541 Kingston upon Thames 541 Derbyshire 532 Cheshire 528 Humberside 528 Waltham Forest 526 Inner London 510 Enfield 510 Northamptonshire 505 Warwickshire 502 Wirral 501 Hillingdon 498 Lancashire 483 Hertfordshire 473 Dudley 470 Avon 460 Stockport 449 Richmond upon Thames 445 Cornwall1 441 Staffordshire 440 Harrow 437 North Yorkshire 435 Cambridgeshire 412 Isle of Wight 398 East Sussex 370 Havering 365 Leicestershire 361 Croydon 353
Local education authority Number per 1,000 of the population aged 3 and 4 Bedfordshire 352 Dorset 350 Shropshire 333 Somerset 329 Gloucestershire 314 Norfolk 302 Suffolk 285 Lincolnshire 276 Bexley 264 Devon 256 Berkshire 256 Redbridge 243 Surrey 232 Trafford 218 Essex 205 Sutton 204 Hampshire 201 Wiltshire 182 Buckinghamshire 177 Oxfordshire 164 Bromley 162 Hereford and Worcester 157 Kent 117 West Sussex 82 1 includes Isles of Scilly.