§ Mr. Simon HughesTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what percentage of under-fives are in full-time state nursery education in each European Community country.
§ Mr. ButcherThe following information is readily available. Further details can be obtained from the Department'sStatistical Bulletin, a copy of which is in the Library.
Participation in education and day care by 3–5 year olds in certain EC countries: 1982 Country Age at which compulsory education starts Percentage participation in: Education Day care Full and part-time of which full-time Belgium 6 97 . . . . Denmark1 7 11 . . 65 France 6 97 14 . . Germany 6 60 6 . . Ireland2 6 50 . . 14 Italy3 6 76 76 . . Luxembourg 6 62 62 . . Netherlands 6 66 66 17 United Kingdom 5 61 47 27 1 1984. 2 1981. 3 Estimated. . . = Not available or not applicable.
§ Mr. Simon HughesTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many nursery places were available in(a) North Yorkshire local education authority and (b) the Ryedale district council area for each of the years 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986 and 1987.
§ Mr. ButcherInformation on the number of nursery places and information for areas within local education authorities are not available centrally. The number of pupils under five in maintained nursery schools and nursery classes in primary schools in North Yorkshire for each of the years 1983 to 1987 was as follows:
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Pupils under five in nursery schools and classes January each year Number 1983 2,490 1984 2,773 1985 2,652 1986 2,631 1987 2,694
§ Mr. Simon HughesTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many nursery school places are available in each local education authority in England, in the last year for which figures are available.
§ Mr. ButcherInformation on the number of nursery school places is not collected centrally. The number of pupils under five in maintained nursery schools in each local education authority in England in January 1988 is given in the following table. There are also pupils in nursery classes in primary schools; these are excluded from the answer.
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Pupils under five in nursery schools January 1988 Barking 0 Barnet 500 Bexley 174 Brent 274 Bromley 0 Croydon 400 Ealing 535 Enfield 0 Haringey 246 Harrow 0 Havering 0 Hillingdon 120 Hounslow 0 Kingston-upon-Thames 236 Merton 0 Newham 972 Redbridge 0 Richmond-upon-Thames 64 Sutton 240 Waltham Forest 329 Inner London 4,232 Birmingham 2,317 Coventry 443 Dudley 401 Sandwell 209 Solihull 0 Walsall 755 Wolverhampton 843 Knowsley 0 Liverpool 560 St. Helens 66 Sefton 315 Wirral 262 Bolton 553 Bury 161 Manchester 535 Oldham 0 Rochdale 910 Salford 845 Stockport 766 Tameside 322 Trafford 0 Wigan 186 Barnsley 181 Doncaster 0 Rotherham 355 Sheffield 738 Bradford 502 Calderdale 88 Kirklees 651 Leeds 254 Wakefield 463
Pupils under five in nursery schools January 1988 Gateshead 50 Newcastle-upon-Tyne 623 North Tyneside 291 South Tyneside 713 Sunderland 949 Isles of Scilly 0 Avon 1,420 Bedfordshire 1,329 Berkshire 2,021 Buckinghamshire 512 Cambridgeshire 637 Cheshire 838 Cleveland 153 Cornwall 101 Cumbria 758 Derbyshire 1,217 Devon 255 Dorset 0 Durham 2,463 East Sussex 284 Essex 252 Gloucestershire 0 Hampshire 260 Hereford and Worcester 0 Hertfordshire 1,733 Humberside 963 Isle of Wight 0 Kent 81 Lancashire 3,399 Leicestershire 50 Lincolnshire 286 Norfolk 399 North Yorkshire 308 Northamptonshire 525 Northumberland 137 Nottinghamshire 575 Oxfordshire 499 Shropshire 166 Somerset 0 Staffordshire 1,824 Suffolk 95 Surrey 416 Warwickshire 755 West Sussex 446 Wiltshire 0 England 49,786