§ Mr. BlunkettTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment (1) what was(a) the number and (b) the percentage of four-year-olds in maintained pre-school provision (i) in each local education authority and (ii) nationally at January 1995; [3998]
(2) what was (a) the number and (b) the percentage of three-year-olds in maintained pre-school provision (i) in each local education authority and (ii) nationally at January 1995; [3997]
(3) what was (a) the number and (b) the percentage of three and four-year-olds in maintained pre-school provision (i) in each local education authority and (ii) nationally in January 1995. [3999]
§ Mr. Robin SquireInformation on pupils aged three and four in maintained nursery schools and nursery classes in each local education authority in England in January 1995 is shown in the following table. The Department does not publish information on participation rates of individual age cohorts by local education authority.
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Pupils aged three and four in maintained nursery schools and nursery classes in maintained primary schools in each local education authority in England—January 1995 (provisional) Pupils (age at 31 August 1994) Percentage of population Pupils aged 3 and 4 at 31 December Age 31 Age 42 1994 Camden 845 4 25 Greenwich 2,229 746 48 Hackney 1,898 11 35 Hammersmith and Fulham 1,069 271 46
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Pupils aged three and four in maintained nursery schools and nursery classes in maintained primary schools in each local education authority in England—January 1995 (provisional) Pupils (age at 31 August 1994) Percentage of population Pupils aged 3 and 4 at 31 December Age 31 Age 42 1994 Islington 1,473 80 37 Kensington and Chelsea 603 153 27 Lambeth 1,603 490 31 Lewisham 1,869 612 37 Southwark 2,323 91 42 Tower Hamlets 2,456 267 58 Wandsworth 2,056 54 35 Westminster 801 187 31 Barking and Dagenham 2,046 6 46 Barnet 2,024 44 32 Bexley 1,413 6 23 Brent 2,459 17 37 Bromley 162 2 2 Croydon 1,999 12 21 Ealing 3,143 7 46 Enfield 1,620 3 22 Haringey 2,354 50 44 Harrow 1,006 3 18 Havering 464 3 9 Hillingdon 1,430 1,923 49 Hounslow 2,362 0 40 Kingston upon Thames 1,028 14 35 Merton 1,860 387 55 Newham 2,925 1,206 52 Redbridge 970 310 20 Richmond upon Thames 653 1 18 Sutton 816 1,147 41 Waltham Forest 1,738 899 39 Birmingham 10,471 17 34 Coventry 1,910 0 24 Dudley 2,626 11 37 Sandwell 3,844 136 54 Solihull 1,877 3 36 Walsall 3,505 2 59 Wolverhampton 3,175 6 54 Knowsley 2,336 23 62 Liverpool 4,941 4 46 St. Helens 1,489 3 35 Sefton 2,290 5 36 Wirral 2,156 1 26 Bolton 2,703 3 41 Bury 1,448 0 30 Manchester 5,116 1,764 54 Oldham 2,455 3 37 Rochdale 2,074 10 33 Salford 2,922 22 53 Stockport 1,972 3 27 Tameside 2,377 1 39 Trafford 2,056 30 43 Wigan 2,050 4 25 Barnsley 1,975 869 48 Doncaster 3,647 1 44 Rotherham 2,176 1,110 46 Sheffield 3,888 1,473 42 Bradford 5,142 634 44 Calderdale 1,945 1 36 Kirklees 3,985 31 40 Leeds 7,147 549 47 Wakefield 3,389 976 54 Gateshead 1,675 2 36 Newcastle upon Tyne 2,761 7 39 North Tyneside 2,306 0 55 South Tyneside 1,971 3 53 Sunderland 3,300 1 42
Pupils aged three and four in maintained nursery schools and nursery classes in maintained primary schools in each local education authority in England—January 1995 (provisional) Pupils (age at 31 August 1994) Percentage of population Pupils aged 3 and 4 at 31 December Age 31 Age 42 1994 Avon 4,844 52 21 Bedfordshire 3,010 2,003 32 Berkshire 3,043 3,721 32 Buckinghamshire 1,785 1,201 16 Cambridge 2,174 8 12 Cheshire 4,528 75 21 Cleveland 7,179 5 60 Cornwall3 1,393 175 15 Cumbria 2,971 40 25 Derbyshire 6,515 2,168 38 Devon 1,998 855 12 Dorset 726 0 5 Durham 6,356 29 46 East Sussex 1,424 54 10 Essex 1,604 981 7 Gloucestershire 27 0 0 Hampshire 1,750 67 5 Hereford and Worcester 868 770 9 Hertfordshire 6,734 2,673 34 Humberside 6,343 2,308 38 Isle of Wight 150 3 7 Kent 1,853 43 5 Lancashire 7,235 24 21 Leicestershire 3,119 1,913 21 Lincolnshire 1,917 33 14 Norfolk 1,119 119 7 North Yorkshire 3,096 489 22 Northamptonshire 3,024 4 18 Northumberland 2,411 7 41 Nottinghamshire 7,807 4,995 50 Oxfordshire 1,668 1,521 19 Shropshire 1,332 669 18 Somerset 521 2 5 Staffordshire 6,602 94 25 Suffolk 1,650 1,422 17 Surrey 2,423 345 12 Warwickshire 2,109 4 17 West Sussex 828 308 7 Wiltshire 397 158 4 England3 4 277,376 46,064 27 1 Includes pupils who became four years of age by 1 January 1995. 2Excludes pupils who became five years of age by 1 January 1995. 3Includes Isles of Scilly. 4Includes Corporation of London.