HC Deb 19 December 1991 vol 201 cc213-5W
Ms. Armstrong

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will give the figures for 1991 for the percentage of under-fives in(a) nursery schools, (b) nursery classes, (c) infant classes and (d) in total, by local education authority in England, in rank order.

Mr. Eggar

Provisional information on the percentage of under-fives, in each of the categories requested, within each local education authority in England in January 1991, and the rank order of each local education authority, is given in the table.

Nursery schools Primary nursery classes Schools infant classes Total of all pupils under 5 in school Rank order
Bradford 3.3 34.1 19.3 56.7 46
Calderdale 0.0 31.1 30.5 61.5 35
Kirklees 4.9 33.4 19.0 57.4 43
Leeds 1.6 39.2 20.1 60.9 38
Wakefield 5.4 42.9 21.2 69.5 19
Gateshead 1.3 31.2 32.2 64.6 27
Newcastle upon Tyne 9.9 30.7 30.8 71.4 16
North Tyneside 6.4 51.9 33.8 92.1 2
South Tyneside 20.2 38.3 39.8 98.4 1
Sunderland 11.6 25.0 31.1 67.7 22
Avon 6.5 11.8 30.7 49.0 65
Bedfordshire 8.4 22.8 11.0 42.1 78
Berkshire 9.8 15.8 1.7 27.3 100
Buckinghamshire 2.8 9.5 15.5 27.8 99
Cambridgeshire 3.7 7.5 31.2 42.4 75
Cheshire 3.2 17.7 31.3 52.2 56
Cleveland 0.9 53.4 34.1 88.4 4
Cornwall1 1.0 12.6 28.7 42.3 77
Cumbria 7.1 16.6 30.8 54.5 52
Derbyshire 6.2 30.2 22.0 58.4 40
Devon 1.3 10.2 16.6 28.1 98
Dorset 0.0 5.6 32.2 37.8 86
Durham 16.6 23.3 30.1 69.9 18
East Sussex 1.9 7.0 29.3 38.2 85
Essex 0.6 5.4 15.5 21.5 102
Gloucestershire 0.0 0.1 30.1 30.2 96
Hampshire 0.8 3.9 15.1 19.8 105
Hereford and Worcester 0.0 7.7 13.2 20.8 103
Hertfordshire 6.3 24.3 16.4 47.0 71
Humberside 5.0 32.5 22.8 60.3 39
Isle of Wight 0.0 6.9 35.1 42.0 79
Kent 0.2 4.6 27.1 31.9 94
Lancashire 8.6 9.0 30.7 48.3 67
Leicestershire 0.2 22.1 16.1 38.4 84
Lincolnshire 2.1 6.3 29.2 37.6 87
Norfolk 2.4 2.8 28.9 34.0 90
North Yorkshire 2.2 18.3 26.9 47.5 70
Northamptonshire 3.9 14.7 33.4 52.0 57
Northumberland 1.8 29.5 31.8 63.0 30
Nottinghamshire 2.1 46.7 7.7 56.5 48
Oxfordshire 6.8 9.1 4.5 20.5 104
Shropshire 1.6 11.8 20.1 33.5 91
Somerset 0.0 0.8 32.7 33.4 92
Staffordshire 7.1 15.1 28.8 51.1 58
Suffolk 0.6 16.1 14.5 31.2 95
Surrey 1.7 9.5 13.3 24.5 101
Warwickshire 6.2 10.6 31.6 48.4 66
West Sussex 3.3 0.8 12.4 16.5 108
Wiltshire 0.0 3.0 14.5 17.9 106
England 4.1 21.1 22.7 47.9
1 Isles of Scilly have been included with Cornwall.
2 Excludes pupils who became 5 years of age by 1st January 1991.
3 The percentage of pupils has been derived by comparing the number of pupils in school with the estimated population aged 3 and 4 years.