§ Mr. BlunkettTo ask the Secretary of State for Education how many school playing fields there were in each local education authority in each of the last four years.
§ Mr. Robin SquireThe table sets out data from the Sports Council's register of recreational land, giving the number of school sports pitches by local education authority in England as at July 1994. Information for earlier years is unavailable.
Not all local education authorities have submitted full returns and the figures should be interpreted with caution. The register excludes playing fields on sites with an area of less than 0.4 hectares, so a number of small school playing fields are not recorded.
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Local Education Authorities Sports pitches Avon 263 Barking and Dagenham 288 Barnet 22 Barnsley 194 Bedfordshire 451 Berkshire 509 Bexley 0 Birmingham 216 Bolton 363 Bradford 309 Brent 36 Bromley 0 B ucki nghamshire 286 Bury 245 Calderdale 96 Cambridgeshire 329 Camden 64 Cheshire 1,618 City of London 0 Cleveland 733 Cornwall and Isles of Scilly 664 Coventry 545 Croydon 332 Cumbria 599 Derbyshire 807 Devon 447 Doncaster 649 Dorset 421 Dudley 145 Durham 656 Ealing 98 East Sussex 233 Enfield 366 Essex 759 Gateshead 120 Gloucestershire 551 Greenwich 49 Hackney 6
Local Education Authorities Sports pitches Hammersmith 12 Hampshire 753 Haringey 14 Harrow 0 Havering 86 Hereford and Worcester 1,107 Hertfordshire 1,633 Hillingdon 97 Hounslow 43 Humberside 838 Isle of Wight 104 Islington 0 Kensington and Chelsea 0 Kent 1,579 Kingston upon Thames 69 Kirklees 104 Knowsley 157 Lambeth 10 Lancashire 1,816 Leeds 481 Leicstershire 791 Lewisham 2 Lincolnshire 505 Liverpool 245 Manchester 148 Merton 30 Newcastle upon Tyne 151 Newham 47 Norfolk 569 North Yorkshire 822 North Tyneside 175 Northamptonshire 401 Northumberland 595 Nottinghamshire 1,443 Oldham 168 Oxfordshire 496 Redbridge 133 Richmond upon Thames 101 Rochdale 314 Rotherham 385 Salford 226 Sandwell 90 Sefton 167 Sheffield 521 Shropshire 405 Solihull 205 Somerset 261 South Tyneside 112 Southwark 3 St. Helens 123 Staffordshire 772 Stockport 397 Suffolk 575 Sunderland 173 Surrey 568 Sutton 13 Tameside 269 Tower Hamlets 3 Trafford 209 Wakefield 292 Walsall 283 Waltham Forest 5 Wandsworth 29 Warwickshire 384 West Sussex 960 Westminster 0 Wigan 263 Wiltshire 294 Wirral 226 Wolverhampton 278 Total 37,799