§ Mrs. MahonTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what is the spending for each local education authority in ranking order for the provision of nursery school places for the last year that figures are available.
§ Mr. Eggar[holding answer 18 March 1991]: The last year for which expenditure on nursery schools was collected separately was 1986–87. For later years, authorities' returns of expenditure do not identify separate figures for nursery and primary schools.
The table shows school-based recurrent spending on nursery schools. The figures do not include expenditure on nursery classes in primary schools.
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Net institutional expenditure1 in nursery schools 1986–872 LEA £000 ILEA 7,623 Lancashire 2,481 Birmingham 1,987 Durham 1,917 Staffordshire 1,676 Avon 1,628 Berkshire 1,516 Humberside 1,481 Hertfordshire 1,337 Salford 1,166 Bedfordshire 1,021 Derbyshire 938 Manchester 929 Newcastle upon Tyne 862 Sheffield 744 Sunderland 715 Rochdale 666 Stockport 633 Bradford 611 Cumbria 591 Cambridgeshire 554 Liverpool 548 Walsall 541 Cheshire 525 Nottinghamshire 514 Ealing 512 Brent 491 South Tyneside 475 Warwickshire 456 Wolverhampton 438 Dudley 435 Bolton 434 Kirklees 422 Northamptonshire 386 Oxfordshire 385 Surrey 355 Coventry 345 Barnet 344 Wakefield 341 Croydon 339 Tameside 327 Buckinghamshire 325 Waltham Forest 290 North Yorkshire 243 Norfolk 244 Lincolnshire 240 West Sussex 230 Wirral 230 Rotherham 230 North Tyneside 219
LEA £000 Northumberland 213 Leeds 211 Kingston upon Thames 208 Sandwell 205 East Sussex 199 Sefton 195 Essex 184 Sutton 169 Devon 158 Hampshire 157 Haringey 157 Wigan 154 Bury 142 Bexley 124 Barnsley 112 Shropshire 111 Suffolk 103 Cornwall 94 Calderdale 90 Cleveland 90 Hillingdon 81 Kent 63 St. Helens 60 Gateshead 55 Merton 53 Richmond upon Thames 45 Leicestershire 31 Somerset 7 Barking and Dagenham 0 Bromley 0 Enfield 0 Harrow 0 Havering 0 Hounslow 0 Redbridge 0 Solihull 0 Knowsley 0 Oldham 0 TrafTord 0 Doncaster 0 Dorset 0 Gloucestershire 0 Hereford and Worcester 0 Isle of Wight 0 Wiltshire 0 Newham n/a Notes:
1 Net institutional spending includes the cost of salaries and wages, premises and certain supplies and services. The cost of central administration and of financing of capital expenditure is not included.
2 The figures are taken from authorities' expenditure returns to Government.
§ Mrs. MahonTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will publish the number of nursery school places made available by each local education authority in ranking order for the last year for which figures are available.
§ Mr. Eggar[holding answer 18 March 1991]: Information on the number of nursery places is not available centrally. The number of pupils in maintained nursery schools in each local education authority in rank order as at January 1990 is given in the table. This excludes pupils in nursery classes in maintained primary schools.
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Number of pupils in maintained nursery schools in rank order January 1990 Number on roll 1. Inner London 4,187 2. Lancashire 3,397 3. Durham 2,519 4. Birmingham 2,371 61W
Number on roll 5. Berkshire 2,119 6. Staffordshire 1,916 7. Avon 1,685 8. Hertfordshire 1,633 9. Derbyshire 1,549 10. Bedfordshire 1,356 11. Humberside 1,007 12. Sunderland 996 13. Newham 965 14. Rochdale 922 15. Salford 900 16. Cumbria 881 17. Oxfordshire 870 18. Cheshire 839 19. South Tyneside 827 20. Wolverhampton 820 21. Stockport 816 22. Walsall 780 23. Warwickshire 758 24. Sheffield 692 25. Newcastle-upon-Tyne 689 26. Cambridgeshire 669 27. Nottinghamshire 658 28. Kirklees 619 29. Northamptonshire 597 30. Ealing 572 31. Liverpool 533 32. Barnet 527 33. Manchester 521 34. Buckinghamshire 519 35. Bradford 518 36. Bolton 507 37. Wakefield 469 38. West Sussex 455 39. Croydon 432 40. Coventry 426 41. Surrey 410 42. Norfolk 399 43. Rotherham 357 44. Hampshire 338 45. North Yorkshire 334 46. Tameside 328 47. Waltham Forest 325 48. Sefton 319 49. Dudley 310 50. Wirral 308 51. Leeds 299 52. Lincolnshire 299 53. East Sussex 298 54. North Tyneside 292 55. Devon 276 56. Brent 267 57. Essex 252 58. Haringey 245 59. Sutton 240 60. Kingston upon Thames 233 61. Sandwell 209 62. Bexley 180 63. Barnsley 177 64. Wigan 170 65. Shropshire 162 66. Bury 162 67. Cleveland 156 68. Northumberland 147 69. Hillingdon 120 70. Cornwall 118 71. Suffolk 97 72. Kent 80 73. St. Helens 75 74. Gateshead 68 75. Richmond upon Thames 62 76. Leicestershire 50 77. Isle of Wight 0 78. Barking 0 79. Calderdale 0 80. Harrow 0 81. Hounslow 0
Number on roll 82. Isles of Scilly 0 83. Redbridge 0 84. Bromley 0 85. Doncaster 0 86. Somerset 0 87. Dorset 0 88. Gloucestershire 0 89. Enfield 0 90. Trafford 0 91. Havering 0 92. Solihull 0 93. Oldham 0 94. Merton 0 95. Hereford and Worcester 0 96. Wiltshire 0 97. Knowsley 0 England 51,678 Note:
(i) Includes full time and part time pupils
(ii) Zeros indicate authorities with no nursery schools.