§ Ms. ArmstrongTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list for each local authority(a) the number of local authority-provided day nursery places 202W and (b) the number of places in registered day nurseries and express these as a percentage of all children aged under five in the local authority.
§ Mrs. Virginia BottomleyThe information requested on the number of places in local authority and registered day nurseries is published in "Children Day Care Facilities, England". The latest publication is for March 1991 and is provisional, a copy of which is available in the Library. These numbers expressed as a rate per 1,000 children under five in the local authority are set out in the table.
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Places in day nurseries at 31 March 1991 as a rate per 1,000 children under five Local authority Places in local authority day nurseries rate per 1,000 population Places in registered day nurseries rate per 1,000 population Cleveland 6.62 28.24 Cumbria 4.97 19.79 Durham 3.92 8.30 Northumberland 2.21 3.31 Gateshead 12.32 18.56 Newcastle upon Tyne 9.61 11.86 North Tyneside 18.02 1.72 South Tyneside 10.31 6.11 Sunderland 15.06 4.08 Humberside 0.00 55.58 North Yorkshire 0.00 31.88 Barnsley 0.00 4.87 Doncaster 2.45 9.24 Rotherham 0.00 0.68 Sheffield 10.88 11.38 Bradford 14.99 18.01 Calderdale 4.41 61.04 Kirklees 5.64 27.10 Leeds 26.60 16.80 Wakefield 0.94 15.76 Cheshire 7.23 34.85 Lancshire 16.94 31.31 Bolton 9.80 42.49 Bury (1990) 8.93 30.21 Manchester (1990) 37.54 13.83 Oldham 13.51 21.81 Rochdale 20.43 23.17 Salford 27.52 11.81 Stockport 2.14 15.56 Tameside 29.03 9.06 Trafford 18.37 48.81 Wigan 11.89 19.30 Knowsley 0.00 7.93 Liverpool 26.51 30.80 Sefton 15.35 24.83 St. Helens 3.41 12.28 Wirral 10.61 21.66 Hereford and Worcester 2.91 29.10 Shropshire 0.00 25.86 Staffordshire 5.97 37.92 Warwickshire 0.00 27.48 Birmingham 19.64 32.73 Coventry 17.52 25.95 Dudley 0.00 17.56 Sandwell 0.00 18.90 Solihull 0.00 34.14 Walsall 6.55 1.91 Wolverhampton 14.07 7.18 Derbyshire 8.02 13.03 Leicestershire 11.29 20.54 Lincolnshire 2.12 18.47 Northamptonshire 2.68 42.83 Nottinghamshire 7.57 16.63 Bedfordshire 7.28 28.99 Berkshire 0.00 33.50
Local authority Places in local authority day nurseries rate per 1,000 population Places in registered day nurseries rate per 1,000 population Buckinghamshire 0.00 18.13 Cambridgeshire 3.69 19.42 Essex 2.76 21.13 Hertfordshire 0.00 0.18 Norfolk 0.00 25.63 Oxfordshire 0.95 22.88 Suffolk 0.41 12.88 Camden 41.48 95.39 Greenwich 25.82 11.31 Hackney 33.49 30.85 Hammersmith 31.14 37.43 Islington (1989) 54.40 40.00 Kensington 44.02 129.74 Lambeth 38.73 36.02 Lewisham 20.18 27.28 Southwark 36.76 32.95 Tower Hamlets 29.24 13.73 Wandsworth 37.55 106.49 Westminster 42.74 55.48 City of London 622.22 1,111.11 Barking 15.19 9.67 Barnet 14.63 1.57 Bexley 2.98 12.40 Brent 18.52 63.80 Bromley 0.00 21.27 Croydon 6.91 14.80 Ealing 17.06 26.14 Enfield 0.00 2.41 Haringey 19.34 39.89 Harrow 6.29 5.92 Havering 10.52 11.13 Hillingdon 12.04 30.17 Hounslow 11.47 27.56 Kingston upon Thames 9.27 32.45 Merton 8.63 7.50 Newham 13.16 5.79 Redbridge 0.00 19.20 Richmond upon Thames 12.05 25.83 Sutton 5.72 43.56 Waltham Forest 17.15 13.54 Hampshire 0.00 0.00 Isle of Wight 13.06 0.00 Kent 0.24 47.11 Surrey 1.07 14.87 East Sussex 0.00 41.04 West Sussex 0.00 26.17 Avon 9.40 29.25 Cornwall 0.00 11.17 Devon 0.00 20.46 Dorset 3.58 16.65 Gloucester 2.86 38.32 Isles of Scilly 0.00 0.00 Somerset (1990) 3.27 27.06 Wiltshire 0.00 7.51 Note: Where an authority has not made a return for 31 March 1991 the most recent years return has been quoted and the year of return shown in brackets.
§ Ms. ArmstrongTo ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) if he will detail the number of child minders registered by local authorities and the number of places available with child minders, for each year since 1979 to date;
(2) if he will detail the number of places in local authority day nurseries for each year since 1979 to date;
(3) if he will detail the number of registered day nursery places for each year since 1979.
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§ Mrs. Virginia BottomleyThe information requested is set out in the table:
Day care provision at 31 March in England Year Number of registered child minders Number of places with registered child minders Number of places in LA day nurseries Number of places in registered day nurseries 1979 1— 1— 28,313 22,381 1980 1— 1— 28,437 22,017 1981 1— 1— 28,252 22,031 1982 44,145 98,495 28,383 21,131 1983 47,912 106,429 28,630 21,889 1984 53,041 116,331 28,872 23,124 1985 58,390 126,847 28,904 25,242 1986 64,160 137,732 28,920 27,923 1987 69,244 150,643 28,880 30,867 1988 74,588 163,700 28,951 36,252 1989 83,904 186,356 28,789 45,026 1990 93,074 205,567 27,978 57,669 1991 103,300 229,800 26,900 76,600 1 Information about child minders for years 1979 to 1981 is not reliable. Data for 1991 are provisional.