HC Deb 21 October 1993 vol 230 cc294-5W
Mrs. Ann Taylor

To ask the Secretary of State for Education what is the number of(a) county, (b) voluntary-aided and (c) grant-maintained secondary schools for each local education authority; and, in each case, what is the total number of pupils in each category.

Mr. Robin Squire

Information on county, voluntary aided and self-governing secondary schools and pupils in January 1992, the latest date for which comparable information is available, is shown in the table. For completeness, the table also shows the number of schools currently operating as self-governing.

LEA 19921 19932
County2 Voluntary aided2 Self-Governing Self-Governing
Schools Pupils Schools Pupils Schools Pupils Schools only
Salford 14 9,883 6 2,595 0 0 0
Stockport 14 15,529 3 1,845 0 0 0
Tameside 16 11,561 3 1,748 1 794 3
Trafford 14 10,044 1 415 0 0 4
Wigan 14 11,335 6 6,268 0 0 0
Bamsley 13 10,742 0 0 0 0 0
Doncaster 32 19,080 2 1,590 0 0 0
Rotherham 15 16,144 1 545 0 0 0
Sheffield 30 22,069 2 1,802 0 0 2
Bradford 76 38,465 8 4,190 1 938 6
Calderdale 12 8,953 2 1,554 2 1,339 4
Kirklees 31 21,709 1 996 2 1,192 2
Leeds 79 41,715 16 7,585 0 0 1
Wakefield 32 16,939 3 1,758 0 0 0
Gates head 11 9,731 2 1,827 0 0 0
Newcastle upon Tyne 19 13,569 3 2,929 0 0 0
North Tyneside 27 14,065 1 901 0 0 0
South Tyneside 9 7,383 2 1,669 0 0 0
Sunderland 14 15,159 3 3,409 0 0 0
Isles of Scilly 1 112 0 0 0 0 0
Avon 50 45,478 5 3,527 2 1,455 2
Bedfordshire 61 37,996 6 3,741 1 774 10
Berkshire 43 34,939 6 2,875 6 5,251 10
Buckinghamshire 35 25,963 2 1,123 3 3,069 8
Cambridgeshire 39 34,681 3 1,879 0 0 16
Cheshire 58 52,636 10 7,465 1 528 3
Cleveland 40 31,245 11 7,350 0 0 0
Cornwall 32 28,925 0 0 0 0 0
Cumbria 32 21,833 4 2,997 2 1,417 11
Derbyshire 49 44,717 5 3,589 2 1,921 13
Devon 61 51,913 5 3,273 1 499 5
Dorset 39 25,470 6 3,973 3 2,627 9
Durham 40 32,644 5 4,377 0 0 0
East Sussex 34 30,576 -3 2,801 0 0 0
Essex 91 83,656 9 6,553 3 3,445 53
Gloucestershire 33 24,788 2 1,781 4 2,821 22
Hampshire 91 73,137 6 4,575 4 2,986 IS
Hereford and Worcester 58 35,527 7 5,185 0 0 5
Hertfordshire 68 49,230 12 9,707 5 4,486 18
Humberside 55 51,368 5 2,892 0 0 0
Isle of Wight 17 8,769 2 752 0 0 0
Kent 97 67,676 13 10,162 16 12,877 54
Lancashire 69 52,632 22 16,508 4 3,183 7
Leicestershire 73 50,626 4 3,307 1 364 5
Lincolnshire 41 22,826 3 1,328 10 6,719 22
Norfolk 47 34,718 2 1,528 1 878 12
North Yorkshire 49 35,476 8 5,155 0 0 0
Northamptonshire 52 35,875 7 4,005 5 2,990 12
Northumberland 52 25,167 4 1,397 0 0 1
Nottinghamshire 73 53,513 10 7,302 0 0 3
Oxfordshire 37 28,274 3 1,661 0 0 0
Shropshire 32 21,364 2 1,200 1 481 5
Somerset 31 21,773 1 623 1 391 1
Staffordshire 71 58,730 9 6,264 0 0 5
Suffolk 68 42,833 4 1,763 0 0 0
Surrey 43 31,804 7 5,295 5 4,137 12
Warwickshire 27 18,799 6 3,357 3 1,303 8
West Sussex 31 31,192 9 5,530 0 0 0
Wiltshire 32 24,945 2 1,210 1 540 8
England 2,989 2,274,063 486 351,910 130 105,750 511
1 Information collected in January 1992 Schools' Census
2 Includes some secondary schools operating as self-governing in October 1993