HC Deb 28 March 1994 vol 240 cc510-1W
Ms Armstrong

To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many three and four-year-old children are in receipt of nursery or primary education in each education authority area; and what percentage this represents of the total number of children of that age group in each area.

Mr. Robin Squire

The information requested is shown in the table.

Pupils aged 3 and 4 in maintained nursery and primary schools in LEAs in England in January 1993
LEA Pupils Percentage of Population
Camden 2,017 51
Greenwich 4,266 63
Hackney 3,147 52
Hammersmith and Fulham 2,109 58
Islington 2,755 59
Kensington and Chelsea 1,232 41
Lambeth 3,470 48
Lewisham 3,693 53
Southwark 4,101 59
Tower Hamlets 4,102 70
Wandsworth 4,048 67
Westminster 1,613 46
Barking and Dagenham 3,252 72
Barnet 4,731 58
Bexley 2,247 37
Brent 4,589 69
Bromley 1,341 18
Croydon 4,255 47
Ealing 5,668 74
Enfield 4,033 55
Haringey 4,457 78
Harrow 2,603 48
Havering 2,346 40
Hillingdon 3,339 50
Hounslow 4,212 73
Kingston upon Thames 2,138 62
Merton 3,650 78
Newham 4,930 64
Redbridge 2,334 39
Richmond upon Thames 1,895 46
Sutton 1,777 38
Waltham Forest 3,568 55
Birmingham 20,313 68
Coventry 5,087 58
Dudley 4,257 53
Sandwell 7,492 92
Solihull 3,635 70
Walsall 6,768 94
Wolverhampton 6,092 87
Knowsley 4,166 84
Liverpool 10,766 83
St. Helens 3,264 70
Sefton 4,900 63
Wirral 5,362 58
Bolton 5,599 73
Bury 3,100 61
Manchester 9,971 75
Oldham 4,655 71
Rochdale 4,140 66
Salford 5,584 88
Stockport 4,343 57
Tameside 4,693 73
Trafford 3,795 66
Wigan 4,901 57
Barnsley 4,028 68
Doncaster 6,146 75
Rotherham 4,323 61
Sheffield 8,329 64
Bradford 10,008 69
Calderdale 3,740 69
Kirklees 6,743 64
LEA Pupils Percentage of Population
Leeds 12,903 67
Wakefield 6,297 71
Gates head 3,504 69
Newcastle upon Tyne 5,202 75
North Tyneside 4,320 89
South Tyneside 3,591 86
Sunderland 6,049 73
Avon 12,952 52
Bedfordshire 7,714 48
Berkshire 6,539 31
Buckinghamshire 5,720 31
Cambridgeshire 8,135 44
Cheshire 13,880 53
Cleveland 14,879 92
Cornwall1 5,348 45
Cumbria 7,020 58
Derbyshire 14,980 61
Devon 7,141 28
Dorset 5,588 37
Durham 11,826 77
East Sussex 6,512 38
Essex 9,279 23
Gloucestershire 4,439 32
Hampshire 8,988 21
Hereford and Worcester 3,821 21
Hertfordshire 13,511 50
Humberside 14,639 61
Isle of Wight 1,143 41
Kent 15,029 36
Lancashire 19,972 52
Leicestershire 9,759 39
Lincolnshire 6,348 43
Norfolk 6,398 35
North Yorkshire 8,813 50
Northamptonshire 8,388 49
Northumberland 5,570 74
Nottinghamshire 15,591 57
Oxfordshire 3,511 22
Shropshire 3,906 35
Somerset 4,261 35
Staffordshire 16,050 57
Suffolk 5,744 32
Surrey 6,748 26
Warwickshire 6,259 49
West Sussex 3,802 22
Wiltshire 3,962 25
England2 656,193 51
1 Includes Isles of Scilly.
2 Includes Corporation of London.