HC Deb 03 July 1995 vol 263 cc35-7W
Mr. French

To ask the Secretary of State for Education if she will list by reference to each local authority area the number of assisted places at schools within each area. [31525]

Mr. Robin Squire

The number taken up through the Government's assisted places scheme in the academic year 1994–95 at participating schools situated within each local education authority area in England is given in the following table. Many of these schools serve wide catchment areas and may offer places to pupils from outside the local authority area in which they are situated.

Assisted places scheme—academic year 1994–95
Local education authority area Number of assisted places taken up
Corporation of London 264
Camden 147
Greenwich 204
Hackney no APS schools
Hammersmith and Fulham 505
Islington no APS schools
Kensington and Chelsea no APS schools
Lambeth 164
Lewisham 383
Southwark 654
Tower Hamlets no APS schools
Wandsworth 377
City of Westminster 170
Barking no APS schools
Barnet 75
Bexley no APS schools
Brent no APS schools
Bromley 223
Croydon 611
Ealing 191
Enfield no APS schools
Haringey 41
Harrow 203
Havering no APS schools
Hillingdon 52
Hounslow no APS schools
Kingston upon Thames 198
Merton 132
Newham no APS schools
Redbridge 222
Richmond upon Thames 322
Sutton 70
Waltham Forest 139
Birmingham 422
Coventry 281
Dudley no APS schools
Sandwell no APS schools
Solihull 466
Walsall no APS schools
Wolverhampton 267
Assisted places scheme—academic year 1994–95
Local education authority area Number of assisted places taken up
Knowsley no APS schools
Liverpool 759
St. Helens no APS schools
Sefton 691
Wirral 362
Bolton 493
Bury 462
Manchester 964
Oldham 401
Rochdale no APS schools
Salford no APS schools
Stockport 379
Tameside no APS schools
Trafford 95
Wigan no APS schools
Barnsley no APS schools
Doncaster no APS schools
Rotherham no APS schools
Sheffield 96
Bradford 296
Calderdale 18
Kirklees 270
Leeds 380
Wakefield 318
Gateshead no APS schools
Newcastle upon Tyne 794
North Tyneside 26
South Tyneside no APS schools
Sunderland no APS schools
Avon 1,584
Bedfordshire 505
Berkshire 290
Buckinghamshire 6
Cambridgeshire 648
Cheshire 356
Cleveland 68
Cornwall 211
Cumbria 190
Derbyshire 285
Devon 793
Dorset 168
Durham 154
East Sussex 341
Essex 340
Gloucestershire 95
Hampshire 1,218
Hereford and Worcester 895
Hertfordshire 893
Humberside 307
Isle of Wight 17
Isles of Scilly no APS schools
Kent 427
Lancashire 987
Leicestershire 372
Assisted places scheme—academic year 1994–95
Local education authority area Number of assisted places taken up
Lincolnshire 215
Norfolk 300
North Yorkshire 255
Northamptonshire 243
Northumberland no APS schools
Nottinghamshire 400
Oxfordshire 491
Shropshire 123
Somerset 586
Staffordshire 577
Suffolk 488
Surrey 820
Warwickshire 304
West Sussex 118
Wiltshire 89