§ Lord Skidelskyasked Her Majesty's Government:
How many surplus places there currently are in each local education authority in (a) primary schools and (b) secondary schools; and what is the total number of surplus places currently in England and Wales.
§ Baroness BlatchThe attached table shows the number of surplus places in each local authority in England during the academic year 1990–91, the latest available figures. The figures are derived from information provided by LEAs in response to a survey by the department. Comparable information for schools in Wales is not centrally available.
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Surplus places in LEA-maintained primary and secondary schools 1990–91 Primary secondary Corporation of London 21 — Camden 972 1,148 Greenwich 2,718 3,260 Hackney 3,019 1,780 Hammersmith 2,981 3,251 Islington 2,958 1,715 101WA
Primary Secondary Kensington and Chelsea 1,090 1,046 Lambeth 4,479 3,852 Lewisham 1,608 3,223 Southwark 5,511 3,837 Tower Hamlets 2,864 1,051 Wandsworth2 9,096 3,908 Westminster 891 868 Barking 1,368 717 Barnet 1,463 983 Bexley 2,914 3,436 Brent 6,585 4,480 Bromley2 2,259 1,309 Croydon 3,389 3,149 Ealing 3,016 3,533 Enfield 765 3,976 Haringey1 — — Harrow 888 466 Havering 1,971 3,229 Hillingdon 3,754 3,693 Hounslow 1,226 2,598 Kingston-upon-Thames 485 1,117 Merton 1,639 2,544 Newham 4,587 3,899 Redbridge 796 695 Richmond-upon-Thames 1,845 643 Sutton2 1,619 513 Waltham Forest 1,445 2,706 Birmingham 8,711 17,171 Coventry 6,022 5,657 Dudley 2,551 5,134 Sandwell 328 7,722 Solihull 3,332 6,645 Walsall 3,823 4,667 Wolverhampton 6,116 5,740 Knowsley 4,004 3,925 Liverpool 19,481 11,545 St. Helns 1,886 3,821 Sefton 1,944 4,519 Wirral 1,953 6,580 Bolton 1,602 1,612 Bury 150 1,013 Manchester 7,617 13,350 Oldham 1,319 1,692 Rochdale3 1,784 2,525 Salford 4,171 3,711 Stockport 3,357 2,732 Tameside 988 1,854 Trafford 1,878 2,955 Wigan 7,811 4,025 Barnsley 4,220 2,644 Doncaster 7,076 8,550 Rotherham 4,346 3,761 Sheffield 9,048 8,730 Bradford 6,370 8,331 Calderdale 3,324 2,891 Kirklees 3,291 6,222 Leeds 8,335 15,684 Wakefield 4,314 7,763 Gateshead 8,422 2,941 Newcastle-Upon-Tyne 4,515 5,425 North Tyneside 3,802 4,842 South Tyneside 2,619 3,528 Sunderland3 4,674 2,566 Isles of Scilly 78 233 Avon 6,359 14,904 Bedfordshire 9,782 9,409 Berkshire 14,013 8,825 Buckinghamshire 11,252 5,564 Cambridge 9,401 2,642 Cheshire 17,045 11,149 Cleveland 10,391 11,298 Cornwall 744 3,209 Cumbria 5,874 9,673 Derbyshire 10,230 12,487 Devon 10,575 9,012 Dorset 1,165 5,941 Durham 11,516 13,626 East Sussex 7,955 6,350
Primary Secondary Essex 22,611 24,319 Gloucestershire 5,506 5,756 Hampshire 24,719 13,601 Hereford and Worcester 9,296 9,570 Hertfordshire 20,503 15,153 Humberside 16,347 14,891 Isle of Wight 357 1,101 Kent 15,431 26,589 Lancashire 6,754 20,135 Leicestershire 7,204 16,644 Lincolnshire 7,236 5,440 Norfolk 10,842 7,682 North Yorkshire 9,524 7,404 Northamptonshire 4,714 8,058 Northumberland 4,902 3,727 Nottinghamshire 17,253 26,198 Oxfordshire 10,004 9,589 Shropshire 5,936 5,718 Somerset 2,524 3,793 Staffordshire 24,485 7,783 Suffolk 7,902 8,015 Surrey 11,084 8,400 Warwickshire 7,305 5,796 West Sussex 8,940 7,634 Wiltshire 9,682 9,987 Total 638,328 672,303 1Not available. 2Figures for secondary schools in theseLEAs are incomplete. 3Figures for secondary schools in theseLEAs are calculated on a slightly different basis since directly comparable figures are not available.