HC Deb 10 December 1993 vol 234 c372W
Mrs. Ann Taylor

To ask the Secretary of State for Education what is his latest estimate of the proportion of three-year-olds in local authority nursery education classes.

Mr. Robin Squire

Latest figures show that in England 39 per cent. of children aged three at the beginning of the 1992–93 school year were being taught in maintained—local education authority and grant-maintained—nursery schools and nursery classes in January 1993 when the annual pupil count is conducted.