HC Deb 30 October 1990 vol 178 cc417-9W
Ms. Armstrong

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what are the latest figures, in ranked order, for the percentage of under-fives in nursery schools, nursery classes and primary classes by local education authority in England and Wales.

Mr. Eggar

The percentage of children under five attending maintained nursery schools, nursery classes and infant classes and infant classes in primary schools in each local education authority in England in January 1989 in rank order is given in the following table. Similar information for Wales is the responsibility of my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Wales.

Percentage of under fives in maintained nursery and primary schools in rank order in each local education authority—January 1989
All under fives Nursery schools Nursery classes Primary classes
Walsall 91.2 11.1 48.2 32.0
Salford 83.6 14.2 38.2 31.3
South Tyneside 81.0 18.2 31.5 31.3
North Tyneside 80.3 5.6 44.5 30.5
Liverpool 79.9 4.3 43.4 32.3
Sandwell 77.4 2.6 43.4 31.5
Cleveland 74.4 1.0 54.3 19.1
Tameside 71.7 5.5 34.6 31.5
Doncaster2 71.2 0.0 39.6 31.6
Newcastle upon Tyne 70.7 9.6 31.1 30.1
Wakefield 70.7 6.0 43.1 21.6
Manchester 70.6 4.1 50.9 15.6
Wolverhampton 70.0 11.7 43.4 14.9
Oldham2 69.9 0.0 36.2 33.7
Knowsley2 69.2 0.0 40.9 28.4
Durham 68.7 16.6 22.3 29.8
Gateshead 66.9 1.3 32.8 32.8
Barking2 65.8 0.0 33.3 32.5
Merton2 65.1 0.0 43.2 22.0
Ealing 64.3 6.9 30.4 27.0
Hounslow2 64.1 0.0 63.1 1.0
Sefton 63.8 4.5 26.7 32.6
Calderdale2 63.4 0.0 29.1 34.4
Birmingham 63.4 7.8 24.2 31.4
Bolton 63.2 6.1 28.8 28.4
Barnsley 63.0 3.0 43.5 16.4
Sunderland 61.8 10.9 22.3 28.6
Rochdale 61.4 15.4 15.5 30.6
Solihull2 61.0 0.0 29.9 31.1
Brent 60.8 3.8 29.6 27.5
Sheffield 60.8 6.0 36.0 18.8
Wigan 59.9 2.2 24.5 33.2
St. Helens 59.7 1.5 29.1 29.1
Kingston upon Thames 59.2 8.2 22.3 28.7
Haringey 59.0 3.1 31.5 24.4
Newham 58.4 13.5 44.8 0.0
Leeds 58.1 1.3 35.5 21.4
Derbyshire 56.0 5.5 27.9 22.7
Bradford 55.6 3.5 32.8 19.4
Kirklees 55.4 5.6 31.2 18.6
Northumberland 54.2 1.8 24.0 28.3
Rotherham 53.9 5.1 34.4 14.5
Nottinghamshire 53.9 2.3 45.0 6.5
Bury 53.8 3.3 21.6 28.9
Humberside 53.5 4.4 29.1 20.1
Cumbria 52.8 6.6 14.3 31.8
Barnet 52.3 6.4 22.4 23.6
Cheshire 52.2 3.4 17.4 31.4
Hillingdon 51.5 2.0 45.9 3.6
Coventry 51.4 4.9 17.2 29.3
Northamptonshire 51.3 3.9 15.1 32.3
Waltham Forest 49.9 5.3 33.0 11.7
Wirral 49.8 3.2 17.5 29.0
Inner London 48.7 6.8 29.4 12.5
Lancashire 48.6 9.1 7.9 31.6
Enfield2 48.4 0.0 20.0 28.3
Warwickshire 48.0 6.3 10.8 30.9
Hertfordshire 47.1 6.5 23.5 17.1
Harrow2 46.8 0.0 16.6 30.1
Avon 46.4 6.3 9.3 30.8
Dudley 45.3 3.9 28.1 13.3
Stockport 43.7 10.0 5.1 28.7
North Yorkshire 43.7 2.2 16.5 25.0
Staffordshire 43.5 7.1 14.9 21.5
Cornwall1 43.0 0.9 12.9 29.1
Cambridgeshire 41.7 3.9 8.0 29.8
Havering2 39.0 0.0 4.5 34.5
Richmond upon Thames 37.4 1.8 17.6 18.1

All under fives Nursery schools Nursery classes Primary classes
Leicestershire 36.5 0.2 21.3 15.0
East Sussex 36.1 2.0 5.2 28.9
Isle of Wight2 35.4 0.0 4.9 30.5
Dorset2 35.0 0.0 5.6 29.4
Bedfordshire 34.9 8.3 21.8 4.8
Somerset2 34.7 0.0 0.9 33.8
Shropshire 32.6 1.6 10.5 20.5
Croydon 32.5 4.6 2.0 25.8
Gloucestershire3 30.6 0.0 0.0 30.6
Lincolnshire 30.5 2.2 5.7 22.5
Suffolk 30.2 0.6 14.7 14.9
Norfolk 29.2 2.3 2.4 24.5
Sutton 25.7 6.0 19.1 0.6
Devon 25.4 1.1 9.2 15.1
Trafford2 25.4 0.0 18.0 7.5
Berkshire 25.0 9.5 14.4 1.2
Redbridge2 24.8 0.0 10.9 13.9
Bexley 24.1 2.9 10.9 10.3
Surrey 23.1 1.7 9.5 11.9
Essex 21.5 0.7 5.4 15.4
Hampshire 19.6 0.7 4.2 14.7
Wiltshire2 18.4 0.0 2.2 16.2
Buckinghamshire 18.3 3.0 7.4 7.9
Oxfordshire 17.8 5.0 9.1 3.7
Hereford and Worcester2 15.7 0.0 6.2 9.5
Bromley2 15.1 0.0 1.8 13.3
Kent 12.8 0.2 4.7 7.8
West Sussex 9.1 3.0 0.6 5.4
England 44.8 4.1 20.1 20.6
1 Includes Isles of Scilly.
2 Have no nursery schools.
3 Have no nursery schools or nursery classes.