HC Deb 24 November 1993 vol 233 cc45-7W
Dr. Wright

To ask the Secretary of State for Education if he will give figures, in total and by local education authority, on the number of parental appeals on school admission for the last year for which figures are available.

Mr. Robin Squire

In the 1991–92 academic year 37,676 appeals were lodged by parents against the non-admission of their children to the maintained school of their choice. The figures requested, by LEA area, are given in the table. In many cases appeals were withdrawn or settled before being heard by an appeals committee.

Local Education Authority Area—Number of appeals lodged
Secondary Primary Total
City — 4 4
Camden 218 167 385
Greenwich 196 236 432
Hackney 152 154 306
Hammersmith 150 83 233
Islington 132 140 272
Kensington and Chelsea 19 24 43
Lambeth 155 349 504
Lewisham 364 275 639
Southwark 132 433 565
Tower Hamlets 326 219 545
Wandsworth 108 64 172
Westminster 177 7 184
Barking 151 72 223
Barnet 477 326 803
Bexley 158 258 416
Brent 104 29 133
Bromley 399 82 481
Secondary Primary Total
Croydon — — —
Ealing 43 198 241
Enfield 739 186 925
Haringey 76 143 219
Harrow 75 418 493
Havering 369 96 465
Hilingdon 71 78 149
Hounslow 230 29 259
Kingston upon Thames 58 57 115
Merton 76 80 156
Newham 329 31 360
Redbridge 223 156 379
Richmond upon Thames 141 66 207
Sutton 237 111 348
Waltham Forest 181 32 213
Birmingham 825 1,126 1,951
Coventry 235 224 459
Dudley 274 55 329
Sandwell 1,140 149 1,289
Solihull 249 32 281
Walsall 117 17 134
Wolverhampton 65 10 75
Knowsley 0 3 3
Liverpool 584 171 755
St Helens 57 37 94
Sefton 50 54 104
Wirral 492 60 552
Bolton 70 71 141
Bury 319 318 637
Manchester 437 985 1,422
Oldham 346 60 406
Rochdale 139 120 159
Salford 6 54 60
Stockport 118 63 181
Thameside 48 48 96
Trafford 83 90 173
Wigan 161 90 251
Barnsley 4 24 28
Doncaster 27 13 40
Rotherham 75 48 123
Sheffield 152 170 322
Bradford 848 118 966
Calderdale 97 49 146
Kirklees 90 68 158
Leeds 594 1,560 2,154
Wakefield 52 47 99
Gateshead 36 42 78
Newcastle upon Tyne 26 84 110
North Tyneside 9 5 5
South Tyneside 0 5 5
Sunderland 78 50 128
Isles of Scilly 0 0 0
Avon 262 621 863
Bedfordshire 76 84 160
Berkshire 570 179 749
Buckinghamshire 344 56 400
Cambridgeshire — 1 1
Cheshire 47 26 73
Cleveland 70 14 84
Cornwall 0 26 26
Cumbria 69 38 107
Derbyshire 368 134 502
Devon 334 45 379
Dorset 153 100 253
Durham 69 142 211
East Sussex 114 148 262
Essex 224 49 273
Gloucestershire 331 51 382
Hampshire 24 22 46
Hereford and Worcester 131 19 150
Hertfordshire 702 156 858
Humberside 197 211 408
Isle of Wight 26 1 27
Kent 1,580 42 1,622
Lancashire 705 1,353 2,058
Leicestershire 299 15 314
Lincolnshire 185 20 205
Norfolk 124 111 135
Secondary Primary Total
North Yorkshire 175 70 245
Northamptonshire 66 44 110
Northumberland 8 6 14
Nottinghamshire 85 190 275
Oxfordshire 130 46 176
Shropshire 77 110 187
Somerset 75 165 240
Staffordshire 139 37 176
Suffolk 54 35 99
Surrey 185 198 383
Warkwickshire 50 36 86
West Sussex 33 42 75
Wiltshire 36 24 60
Total 22,286 15,390 37,676
1 Figures based on incomplete data.
2 No LEA return for 1991–92 year. The figures relate to the GM sector only.