§ Mr. Don FosterTo ask the Secretary of State for Education what percentage and how many primary school pupils were in classes of over 30 in January in each local education authority and in total; what was the change in numbers compared with January 1994 in each local education authority and in total; and what the change in numbers between January 1994 and January 1995 represents as a percentage change in each local education authority.
§ Mr. Robin SquireInformation on pupils in classes of 31 and over in maintained schools in January 1994 is shown in the table. Information for January 1995 will not be available until the autumn.
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Numbers and percentages of pupils in single teacher classes of size 31 and over in maintained primary schools in each local education authority in England—January 1994 Number of pupils Percentage1 City 0 0.0 Camden 542 6.1 Greenwich 2,301 13.3 Hackney 499 3.7 Hammersmith 795 11.1 Islington 892 6.9 Kensington and Chelsea 454 9.0 Lambeth 816 5.2 Lewisham 1,318 7.2 Southwark 2,331 12.3 Tower Hamlets 638 4.9 Wandsworth 1,666 11.8 Westminster 428 5.9 Barking 1,415 9.9 Barnet 2,434 11.6 Bexley 5,910 32.0 Brent 2,157 11.4 Bromley 10,385 47.5 Croydon 4,896 20.5 Ealing 4,146 20.3 Enfield 7,237 35.4 Haringey 732 4.3 Harrow 3,544 22.6 Havering 4,176 22.1 Hillingdon 4,896 27.5 Hounslow 5,319 33.5 Kingston Upon Thames 5,484 57,9 Merton 3,114 25.3 Newham 1,317 6.0 Redbridge 8,456 52.8 Richmond Upon Thames 1,134 11.4 Sutton 4,696 40.1 Waltham Forest 3,200 18.4 Birmingham 27,164 28.4 Coventry 5,541 21.9 Dudley 7,497 31.1 Sandwell 10,175 37.5 Solihull 6,711 36.9 Walsall 5,577 25.1 Wolverhampton 5,155 24.1 Knowsley 5,915 34.8 Liverpool 12,620 26.6 St. Helens 5,437 37.5 Sefton 8,258 33.7 Wirral 5,928 20.4 Bolton 9,046 41.0 Bury 6,239 40.0 Manchester 9,619 23.4 Oldham 8,617 41.1 Rochdale 8,020 43.8
Numbers and percentages of pupils in single teacher classes of size 31 and over in maintained primary schools in each local education authority in England—January 1994 Number of pupils Percentage1 Salford 6,817 30.6 Stockport 8,179 33.8 Tameside 12,079 56.4 Trafford 9,151 49.6 Wigan 9,997 38.2 Barnsley 5,656 28.3 Doncaster 7,548 28.4 Rotherham 2,569 11.5 Sheffield 8,281 21.9 Bradford 8.781 27.3 Calderdale 5,268 30.1 Kirklees 9,372 29.9 Leeds 19,405 32.7 Wakefield 9,996 37.0 Gateshead 1,862 11.2 Newcastle Upon Tyne 5,843 28.5 North Tyneside 3,905 26.0 South Tyneside 3,456 23.9 Sunderland 4,244 16.2 Isles of Scilly 31 18.5 Avon 26,753 35.5 Bedfordshire 9,064 24.4 Berkshire 16,290 28.9 Buckinghamshire 19,072 33.3 Cambridgeshire 15,079 27.2 Cheshire 30,193 36.2 Cleveland 13,386 23.2 Cornwall 13,441 35.1 Cumbria 9,385 24.2 Derbyshire 29,982 39.9 Devon 21,175 27.3 Dorset 18,142 44.0 Durham 15,012 28.9 East Sussex 19,297 40.7 Essex 30,729 25.8 Gloucestershire 11,123 26.5 Hampshire 44.304 34.2 Hereford and Worcester 9,910 21.1 Hertfordshire 21,344 27.7 Humberside 25,914 33.4 Isle of Wight 1,862 26.6 Kent 41,570 33.6 Lancashire 45,112 38.5 Leicestershire 14,433 20.2 Lincolnshire 12,642 26.6 Norfolk 11,175 19.5 North Yorkshire 13,702 24.8 Northamptonshire 9,590 20.6 Northumberland 7,901 41.4 Nottinghamshire 19,947 24.2 Oxfordshire 5,850 15.3 Shropshire 9,085 27.2 Somerset 10,476 30.1 Staffordshire 30,738 35.3 Suffolk 5,608 13.8 Surrey 13,741 20.2 Warwickshire 12,740 30.6 West Sussex 10,934 21.6 Wiltshire 12,185 26.5 England 1,076,173 28.2 1 Pupils in single teacher classes of 31 and over expressed as a percentage of all pupils in single teacher classes.