HC Deb 04 February 1992 vol 203 cc106-9W
Mr. Matthew Taylor

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many places in nursery schools and classes were provided by local education authorities in 1990–91 and 1991–92 in England and Wales; how many of these places were(a) full time and (b) part time; and what was the total number of full-time equivalent places provided.

Mr. Eggar

Information on the number of pupils in maintained nursery schools and nursery classes in primary schools in each local education authority in England in January 1991, the latest date for which information is available, is given in the table. The table also contains information about the number of pupils under five in

All pupils under the age of 5 in maintained nursery and primary schools as at January 1991
Nursery schools Nursery classes in primary schools Other pupils under 5 in infant classes in primary schools All pupils in nursery and primary schools
Number of pupils Number of pupils
Full-time Part-time Full-time Part-time Full-time Part-time Total pupils Full-time equivalent of pupils
City 0 0 13 7 11 0 31 27.5
Camden 105 44 432 454 525 0 1,560 1,311.0
Greenwich 352 323 237 2,121 961 30 4,024 2,787.0
Hackney 61 111 760 1,241 719 8 2,900 2,220.0
Hammersmith and Fulham 240 333 397 483 467 12 1,932 1,518.0
Islington 143 131 848 697 642 12 2,473 2,053.0
Kensington and Chelsea 165 88 389 164 307 5 1,118 989.5
Lambeth 193 250 550 1,329 919 53 3,294 2,478.0
Lewisham 100 130 363 1,825 865 80 3,363 2,345.5
Southwark 182 288 622 1,519 911 19 3,541 2,628.0
Tower Hamlets 441 252 990 842 805 2 3,332 2,784.0
Wandsworth 112 97 612 1,460 839 21 3,141 2,352.0
Westminster 78 84 421 377 410 13 1,383 1,146.0
Barking 0 0 37 1,353 1,269 0 2,659 1,982.5
Barnet 18 487 43 1,827 1,972 96 4,443 3,238.0
Bexley 20 160 0 791 870 0 1,841 1,365.5
Brent 178 70 333 1,778 1,919 0 4,278 3,354.0
Bromley 0 0 1 142 1,039 7 1,189 1,114.5
Croydon 47 386 0 446 2,494 19 3,392 2,966.5
Ealing 20 564 29 2,579 2,199 3 5,394 3,821.0
Enfield 0 0 0 1,437 2,003 22 3,462 2,732.5
Haringey 206 36 344 1,777 1,688 3 4,054 3,146.0
Harrow 0 0 0 950 1,487 41 2,478 1,982.5
Havering 0 0 9 228 864 910 2,011 1,442.0
Hillingdon 0 120 0 3,011 52 69 3,252 1,652.0
Hounslow 0 0 1,755 2,385 9 2 4,151 2,957.5
Kingston upon Thames 69 144 10 865 466 465 2,019 1,282.0
Merton 0 0 2 2,314 828 195 3,339 2,084.5
Newham 42 967 52 2,579 0 783 4,423 2,258.5
Redbridge 0 0 39 844 818 17 1,718 1,287.5
Richmond upon Thames 8 52 0 630 32 985 1,707 873.5
Sutton 0 240 0 1,247 46 1 1,534 790.0
Waltham Forest 53 262 101 2,061 817 0 3,294 2,132.5
Total Greater London 2,833 5,619 9,389 41,763 29,253 3,873 92,730 67,102.5
Birmingham 840 1,514 2,047 5,713 9,721 0 19,835 16,221.5
Coventry 50 318 29 1,825 2,766 7 4,995 3,920.0
Dudley 9 300 120 2,371 1,223 25 4,048 2,700.0
Sandwell 143 108 197 3,941 2,709 31 7,129 5,089.0
Solihull 0 0 0 1,673 1,746 18 3,437 2,591.5
Walsall 92 671 36 3,389 2,364 5 6,557 4,524.5
Wolverhampton 0 821 1 3,046 1,056 4 4,928 2,992.5
Knowsley 0 0 8 2,252 1,569 0 3,829 2,703.0
Liverpool 163 424 524 5,181 4,429 0 10,721 7,918.5
St. Helens 5 68 0 1,534 1,542 0 3,149 2,348.0
Sefton 1 316 1 2,080 2,361 0 4,759 3,561.0
Wirral 23 283 2 1,873 2,870 0 5,051 3,973.0
Bolton 59 450 311 2,223 2,406 0 5,449 4,112.5
Bury 68 72 193 1,075 1,505 1 2,914 2,340.0
Manchester 431 133 3,975 2,791 2,148 2 9,480 8,017.0
Oldham 0 0 780 1,491 2,183 0 4,454 3,708.5
Rochdale 52 884 129 980 1,923 0 3,968 3,036.0
Salford 534 362 1,610 725 1,993 0 5,224 4,680.5
Stockport 157 717 0 626 2,316 13 3,829 3,151.0
Tameside 0 341 31 2,084 1,981 4 4,441 3,226.5
Trafford 0 0 0 1,509 1,633 0 3,142 2,387.5
Wigan 28 157 12 1,851 2,702 119 4,869 3,805.5
Barnsley 0 179 6 2,746 998 3 3,932 2,468.0
Doncaster 0 0 64 3,306 2,787 0 6,157 4,504.0
Rotherham 0 387 252 2,276 1,100 0 4,015 2,683.5
Sheffield 135 656 288 4,512 2,046 388 8,025 5,247.0
Bradford 200 307 193 5,055 2,532 443 8,730 5,827.5

infant classes in maintained primary schools. Information on schools in Wales is the responsibility of my right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Wales.

Nursery schools Nursery classes in primary schools Other pupils under 5 in infant classes in primary schools All pupils in nursery and primary schools
Number of pupils Number of pupils
Full-time Part-time Full-time Part-time Full-time Part-time Total pupils Full-time equivalent of pupils
Calderdale 0 0 317 1,366 1,650 0 3,333 2,650.0
Kirklees 3 539 2 3,668 2,088 0 6,300 4,196.5
Leeds 14 272 78 7,116 3,104 582 11,166 7,181.0
Wakefield 0 459 101 3,570 1,695 116 5,941 3,868.5
Gateshead 8 57 17 1,539 1,606 0 3,227 2,429.0
Newcastle upon Tyne 578 142 717 1,524 2,244 2 5,207 4,373.0
North Tyneside 65 231 28 2,389 1,565 7 4,285 2,971.5
South Tyneside 19 753 10 1,453 1,520 0 3,755 2,652.0
Sunderland 58 945 12 2,149 2,681 0 5,845 4,298.0
Total Metropolitan districts 3,735 12,866 12,091 92,902 82,762 1,770 206,126 152,357.0
Avon 862 684 369 2,458 7,343 5 11,721 10,147.5
Bedfordshire 255 1,108 344 3,352 978 805 6,842 4,209.5
Berkshire 129 2,019 86 3,396 329 43 6,002 3,273.0
Buckinghamshire 1 509 0 1,724 907 1,924 5,065 2,986.5
Cambridgeshire 90 565 39 1,276 5,377 118 7,465 6,485.5
Cheshire 30 801 40 4,541 8,113 12 13,537 10,860.0
Cleveland 0 146 42 8,655 5,397 163 14,403 9,921.0
Cornwall 25 87 1 1,435 1,759 1,510 4,817 3,301.0
Cumbria 1 869 0 2,020 3,728 25 6,643 5,186.0
Derbyshire 147 1,337 599 6,604 3,778 1,482 13,947 9,235.5
Devon 42 254 118 2,245 3,556 275 6,490 5,103.0
Dorset 0 0 0 781 1,023 3,448 5,252 3,137.5
Durham 216 2,290 42 3,487 4,525 28 10,588 7,685.5
East Sussex 3 294 4 1,058 2,211 2,261 5,831 4,024.5
Essex 19 236 114 2,040 6,064 84 8,557 7,377.0
Gloucestershire 0 0 15 0 4,050 32 4,097 4,081.0
Hampshire 0 339 0 1,610 5,640 577 8,166 6,903.0
Hereford and Worcester 0 0 117 1,172 2,178 32 3,499 2,897.0
Hertfordshire 88 1,598 43 6,422 3,957 417 12,525 8,306.5
Humberside 202 899 594 6,540 4,853 142 13,230 9,439.5
Isle of Wight 0 0 5 175 912 1 1,093 1,005.0
Kent 0 84 27 1,773 7,247 3,415 12,546 9,910.0
Lancashire 103 3,297 3 3,534 12,074 6 19,017 15,598.5
Leicestershire 0 50 1,583 3,810 3,266 647 9,356 7,102.5
Lincolnshire 88 211 64 828 4,104 25 5,320 4,788.0
Norfolk 2 399 0 460 3,056 1,769 5,686 4,372.0
North Yorkhire 33 334 126 2,905 4,100 357 7,855 6,057.0
Northamptonshire 15 584 62 2,181 5,060 36 7,938 6,537.5
Northumberland 19 115 38 2,204 2,399 18 4,793 3,624.5
Nottinghamshire 17 549 217 12,311 1,838 228 15,160 8,616.0
Oxfordshire 67 1,007 69 1,368 421 286 3,218 1,887.5
Shropshire 0 168 0 1,255 1,669 473 3,565 2,617.0
Somerset 0 0 36 51 3,631 52 3,770 3,718.5
Staffordshire 952 1,015 1,434 2,760 7,792 206 14,159 12,168.5
Suffolk 6 90 0 2,700 2,399 38 5,233 3,819.0
Surrey 92 326 5 2,346 3,083 223 6,075 4,627.5
Warwickshire 0 755 2 1,300 3,856 15 5,928 4,893.0
West Sussex 13 505 19 111 1,926 32 2,606 2,282.0
Wiltshire 0 0 0 520 2,059 156 2,735 2,397.0
Total Non-metropolitan counties 3,517 23,524 6,257 103,408 146,658 21,366 304,730 230,581.0
ENGLAND 10,085 42,009 27,737 238,073 258,673 27,009 603,586 450,040.5