Mr. Alan W. WilliamsTo ask the Secretary of State for Education what percentage of children under five years received nursery education(a) in 1979 and (b) in 1992.
§ Mr. ForthIn January 1979, 18 per cent. of three and four-year-olds were in maintained nursery schools or nursery classes in maintained primary schools in England. In January 1991, the latest year for which information on participation rates is available, the proportion was 25 per cent.
§ Mr. ByersTo ask the Secretary of State for Education if he will list the number of three and four-year-olds in each local authority who were attending a primary school in January 1992.
§ Mr. ForthThe numbers of three and four-year-olds in nursery classes and infant classes in maintained primary schools in each local education authority in England in January 1992 are shown in the table.
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Pupils aged three and four in maintained nursery and infant classes in maintained primary schools in England—January 1992 LEA Pupils in nursery classes Pupils in infant classes Total pupils in primary schools City 29 10 39 Camden 821 961 1,782 Greenwich 2,421 990 3,411 Hackney 2,047 836 2,883 Hammersmith 935 545 1,480 Islington 1,529 689 2,218 Kensington and Chelsea 563 345 908 Lambeth 1,847 946 2,793 Lewisham 2,338 1,045 3,383 Southwark 2,223 1,033 3,256 Tower Hamlets 1,992 925 2,917 Wandsworth 2,002 1,605 3,607 Westminster 884 429 1,313 Barking 1,750 1,391 3,141 Barnet 1,839 2,116 3,955 Bexley 947 907 1,854 Brent 2,151 2,120 4,271 Bromley 154 1,101 1,255 Croydon 706 2,640 3,346 Ealing 2,657 2,383 5,040 Enfield 1,484 2,186 3,670 Haringey 2,332 1,755 4,087 Harrow 958 1,557 2,515 Havering 247 1,892 2,139 Hillingdon 3,030 133 3,163 Hounslow 2,469 1,748 4,217 Kingston upon Thames 931 962 1,893 Merton 2,593 911 3,504 Newham 3,498 2 3,500 Redbridge 987 1,050 2,037 Richmond upon Thames 635 1,052 1,687 Sutton 1,444 44 1,488 Waltham Forest 2,181 868 3,049 Birmingham 7,975 9,806 17,781 Coventry 1,968 2,891 4,859 Dudley 2,810 1,281 4,092 Sandwell 4,424 2,769 7,193 Solihull 1,728 1,739 3,467 Walsall 3,431 2,481 5,912 Wolverhampton 3,089 1,074 4,163 Knowsley 2,477 1,577 4,054 Liverpool 5,789 4,452 10,241 St Helens 1,557 1,527 3,084
LEA Pupils in nursery classes Pupils in infant classes Total pupils in primary schools Sefton 2,155 2,364 4,519 Wirral 1,999 2,960 4,959 Bolton 2,558 2,407 4,965 Bury 1,295 1,566 2,861 Manchester 6,778 2,346 9,124 Oldham 2,386 2,195 4,581 Rochdale 1,085 2,016 3,101 Salford 2,473 2,026 4,499 Stockport 822 2,374 3,196 Tameside 2,150 2,090 4,240 Trafford 1,820 1,757 3,577 Wigan 1,929 2,786 4,715 Barnsley 2,771 1,045 3,816 Doncaster 3,326 2,849 6,175 Rotherham 2,601 1,125 3,726 Sheffield 4,967 2,426 7,393 Bradford 5,517 3,047 8,564 Calderdale 1,799 1,759 3,558 Kirklees 3,902 2,087 5,989 Leeds 7,996 3,542 11,538 Wakefield 3,846 1,795 5,641 Gateshead 1,728 1,600 3,328 Newcastle upon Tyne 2,302 2,232 4,534 North Tyneside 2,356 1,691 4,047 South Tyneside 1,448 1,380 2,828 Sunderland 2,131 2,681 4,812 Isles of Scilly 0 13 13 Avon 3,304 7,726 11,030 Bedfordshire 3,733 2,149 5,882 Berkshire 3,653 512 4,165 Buckinghamshire 2,177 2,784 4,961 Cambridgeshire 1,480 5,837 7,317 Cheshire 4,621 8,113 12,734 Cleveland 9,279 5,600 14,879 Cornwall 1,498 3,453 4,951 Cumbria 2,204 3,839 6,043 Derbyshire 7,444 5,210 12,654 Devon 2,450 3,902 6,352 Dorset 805 4,636 5,441 Durham 4,159 4,571 8,730 East Sussex 1,162 4,879 6,041 Essex 2,180 6,350 8,530 Gloucestershire 0 4,340 4,340 Hampshire 1,655 6,679 8,334 Hereford and Worcester 1,274 2,544 3,818 Hertfordshire 6,724 4,520 11,244 Humberside 7,627 5,073 12,700 Isle of Wight 186 914 1,100 Kent 1,893 12,041 13,934 Lancashire 3,477 12,281 15,758 Leicestershire 5,322 4,414 9,736 Lincolnshire 1,109 4,393 5,502 Norfolk 460 5,107 5,567 North Yorkshire 3,110 4,998 8,108 Northamptonshire 2,296 5,289 7,585 Northumberland 2,677 2,403 5,080 Nottinghamshire 12,730 1,990 14,720 Oxfordshire 1,492 772 2,264 Shropshire 1,224 2,063 3,287 Somerset 239 3,635 3,874 Staffordshire 4,531 8,746 13,277 Suffolk 2,852 2,572 5,424 Surrey 2,422 3,573 5,995 Warwickshire 1,366 4,057 5,423 West Sussex 143 2,601 2,744 Wiltshire 561 2,476 3,037 Total 277,531 299,976 577,507