HC Deb 12 May 1993 vol 224 cc496-9W
Mrs. Gorman

To ask the Secretary of State for Education (1) how many pupils in(a) England and (b) each local education authority are educated in (i) local authority-maintained special schools, (ii) non-maintained special schools and (iii) independent special schools;

(2) how many pupils in (a) England and (b) each local education authority have boarding places in (i) local authority-maintained special schools, (ii) non-maintained special schools and (iii) independent special schools.

Mr. Forth

The information requested for maintained and non-maintained special schools is shown in the table.

Information on independent special schools can be provided only at disproportionate cost.

Maintained Non-maintained
All pupils Boarders (1) All pupils Boarders(1)
Hackney 651 150 0 0
Hammersmith 436 55 0 0
Islington 335 26 0 0
Kensington and Chelsea 87 86 0 0
Lambeth 843 98 0 0
Lewisham 466 59 0 0
Southwark 491 61 0 0
Tower Hamlets 511 41 0 0
Wandsworth 715 195 0 0
Westminster 168 29 0 0
Barking 161 0 0 0
Barnet 365 50 0 0
Bexley 272 0 0 0
Brent 353 0 0 0
Bromley 358 0 44 41
Croydon 515 14 0 0
Ealing 459 0 0 0
Enfield 429 0 0 0
Haringey 342 0 0 0
Harrow 220 0 0 0
Havering 225 0 0 0
Hillingdon 402 0 89 34
Hounslow 391 0 0 0
Kingston upon Thames 231 0 0 0
Merton 249 0 0 0
Newham 342 0 0 0
Redbridge 382 0 9 0
Richmond upon Thames 149 0 0 0
Sutton 311 0 0 0
Waltham Forest 777 20 0 0
Birmingham 3,015 222 0 0
Coventry 820 65 0 0
Dudley 571 0 0 0
Sandwell 819 43 0 0
Solihull 277 0 0 0
Walsall 575 25 0 0
Wolverhampton 501 8 0 0
Knowsley 625 53 0 0
Liverpool 1,585 94 147 80
St. Helens 470 0 0 0
Sefton 428 0 165 97
Wirral 772 0 69 32
Bolton 483 9 37 12
Bury 298 23 0 0
Manchester 1,849 106 0 0
Oldham 593 0 0 0
Rochdale 503 28 0 0
Salford 451 0 0 0
Stockport 448 37 323 102
Tameside 422 0 0 0
Trafford 398 0 0 0
Wigan 868 66 0 0
Barnsley 158 0 0 0
Doncaster 710 36 308 244
Rotherham 628 0 0 0
Sheffield 878 133 0 0
Bradford 962 7 0 0
Calderdale 199 0 54 54
Kirklees 645 74 30 22
Leeds 1,019 16 113 81
Wakefield 635 16 0 0
Gateshead 364 24 0 0
Newcastle upon Tyne 792 69 156 96
North Tyneside 439 0 121 20
South Tyneside 346 0 0 0
Sunderland 695 0 0 0
Isles of Scilly 0 0 0 0
Avon 2,065 228 0 0
Bedfordshire 1,143 81 0 0
Berkshire 1,649 79 239 234
Buckinghamshire 1,582 275 0 0
Cambridgeshire 984 77 0 0
Cheshire 1,505 333 171 163
Cleveland 1,415 58 0 0
Cornwall 298 57 0 0
Cumbria 306 0 0 0
Derbyshire 1,356 97 98 48

Maintained Non-maintained
All pupils Boarders(1) All pupils Boarders(1)
Devon 1,787 185 344 250
Dorset 1,104 57 76 35
Durham 1,068 127 0 0
East Sussex 1,366 65 438 324
Essex 2,609 147 160 73
Gloucestershire 1,320 108 65 33
Hampshire 3,688 178 279 279
Hereford and Worcester 1,260 38 172 172
Hertfordshire 1,911 275 63 63
Humberside 1,240 121 0 0
Isle of Wight 252 0 44 42
Kent 3,346 559 514 418
Lancashire 3,258 218 159 112
Leicestershire 1,104 165 0 0
Lincolnshire 1,145 159 0 0
Norfolk 896 83 0 0
North Yorkshire 1,007 197 202 170
Northamptonshire 1,158 17 28 26
Northumberland 488 62 0 0
Nottinghamshire 1,718 80 93 65
Oxfordshire 839 48 130 127
Shropshire 550 14 77 77
Somerset 609 23 61 43
Staffordshire 2,222 181 0 0
Suffolk 792 123 0 0
Surrey 1,783 325 636 578
Warwickshire 1,301 148 0 0
West Sussex 1,233 123 90 58
Wiltshire 753 175 22 15
England 92,101 7,442 5,826 4,320

(1) Boarders are included in total pupils figures.

Mrs. Gorman

To ask the Secretary of State for Education what is the average annual cost of(a) boarding and (b) day places in (i) local authority-maintained special schools, (ii) non-maintained special schools and (iii) independent special schools.

Mr. Forth

This information is not collected centrally.