§ Mr. ByersTo ask the Secretary of State for Education what percentage of statutory age pupils attended a special school in each local education authority; and what was the national average, for the latest year for which information is available.
§ Mr. ForthThe percentage of pupils aged five to 15 attending maintained special schools in England in January 1993 was 1.31 per cent.
Information on attendance at maintained special schools in each local authority in England is given in the table.
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Percentage of pupils of compulsory school age attending maintained special schools in each Local Education Authority in England January 1993 Local education authority Percentage of pupils attending special schools Corporation of London 0.00 Camden 1.76 Greenwich 2.11 489W
Local education authority Percentage of pupils attending special schools Hackney 2.75 Hammersmith 2.55 Islington 1.60 Kensington and Chelsea 0.78 Lambeth 3.21 Lewisham 1.68 Southwark 1.59 Tower Hamlets 1.72 Wandsworth 3.32 Westminster 1.14 Barking 0.69 Barnet 0.77 Bexley 0.89 Brent 1.14 Bromley 0.99 Croydon 1.26 Ealing 1.32 Enfield 1.06 Haringey 1.30 Harrow 0.79 Havering 0.61 Hillingdon 1.24 Hounslow 1.39 Kingston upon Thames 1.45 Merton 1.22 Newham 0.74 Redbridge 1.30 Richmond upon Thames 0.85 Sutton 1.13 Waltham Forest 2.37 Birmingham 1.72 Coventry 1.83 Dudley 1.36 Sandwell 1.87 Solihull 0.90 Walsall 1.21 Wolverhampton 1.36 Knowsley 2.45 Liverpool 2.16 St. Helens 1.73 Sefton 0.96 Wirral 1.57 Bolton 1.14 Bury 1.18 Manchester 2.33 Oldham 1.30 Rochdale 1.55 Salford 1.28 Stockport 0.99 Tameside 1.27 Trafford 1.28 Wigan 1.85 Barnsley 0.43 Doncaster 1.50 Rotherham 1.56 Sheffield 1.27 Bradford 0.89 Calderdale 0.48 Kirklees 1.14 Leeds 0.91 Wakefield 1.29 Gateshead 1.28 Newcastle-upon-Tyne 1.96 North Tyneside 1.49 South Tyneside 1.40 Sunderland 1.39 Isles of Scilly 0.00 Avon 1.63 Bedfordshire 1.36 Berkshire 1.59 Buckinghamshire 1.66 Cambridgeshire 1.00 Cheshire 0.92 Cleveland 1.46 Cornwall 0.42 Cumbria 0.34
Local education authority Percentage of pupils attending special schools Derbyshire 0.89 Devon 1.33 Dorset 1.37 Durham 1.24 East Sussex 1.65 Essex 1.18 Gloucestershire 1.74 Hampshire 1.63 Hereford and Worcester 1.21 Hertfordshire 1.40 Humberside 0.89 Isle of Wight 1.23 Kent 1.43 Lancashire 1.56 Leicestershire 0.80 Lincolnshire 1.35 Norfolk 0.89 North Yorkshire 1.04 Northamptonshire 1.18 Northumberland 1.12 Nottinghamshire 1.07 Oxfordshire 1.06 Shropshire 0.85 Somerset 1.02 Staffordshire 1.36 Suffolk 0.84 Surrey 1.58 Warwickshire 1.65 West Sussex 1.37 Wiltshire 0.99 England 1.31