HL Deb 02 February 1994 vol 551 cc99-101WA
Lord Skidelsky

asked 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 Blatch

The 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.

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
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.