Nursery Education

HC Deb 20 November 1990 vol 181 cc64-5W

Sir Thomas Arnold

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will list the scope, extent and cost of nursery education in each of the boroughs of Greater Manchester.

Mr. Eggar

Information on the cost of this provision is not available centrally. The boroughs' provision for nursery education in January 1989 was as follows:

¹ Pupils under 5 at January 1989.

² Number of pupils under 5 expressed as a percentage of the estimated 3 and 4 year old population.

³ Number of primary schools with designated nursery classes.

Information on the extent of participation in nursery education in each local education authority is published annually in a statistical bulletin; the latest of which, No. 7/90, is available in the Library.