HC Deb 05 July 1995 vol 263 cc229-31W
Mr. Byers

To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many school age pupils resident in each local education authority area attend independent schools. [31899]

Mr. Robin Squire

The numbers of pupils of compulsory school age in independent schools in each LEA area in England are shown in the table. Information about the LEA area in which pupils are resident is not collected centrally.

Pupils of compulsory school age1 in independent schools in each LEA area in England: January 1994
LEA Pupils
Corporation of London 1,233
Camden 4,516
Greenwich 1,318
Hackney 2,628
Hammersmith 2,771
Islington 194
Kensington and Chelsea 7,454
Lambeth 1,214
Lewisham 2,592
Southwark 4,444
Tower Hamlets 223
Pupils of compulsory school age1 in independent schools in each LEA area in England: January 1994
LEA Pupils
Wandsworth 4,301
Westminster 4,170
Barking 0
Barnet 4,345
Bexley 493
Brent 1,634
Bromley 3,844
Croydon 6,898
Ealing 4,693
Enfield 1,000
Haringey 1,812
Harrow 3,609
Havering 528
Hillingdon 2,694
Hounslow 560
Kingston upon Thames 2,463
Merton 2,710
Newham 151
Redbridge 2,902
Richmond upon Thames 5,124
Sutton 1,356
Waltham Forest 1,184
Birmingham 4,772
Coventry 2,036
Dudley 247
Sandwell 104
Solihull 2,360
Walsall 446
Wolverhampton 1,372
Knowsley 0
Liverpool 2,529
St. Helens 554
Sefton 2,935
Wirral 3,623
Bolton 2,121
Bury 1,897
Manchester 4,497
Oldham 1,411
Rochdale 364
Salford 1,503
Stockport 3,812
Tameside 113
Trafford 2,969
Wigan 0
Barnsley 58
Doncaster 601
Rotherham 181
Sheffield 1,849
Bradford 3,624
Calderdale 971
Kirklees 1,448
Leeds 3,881
Wakefield 2,752
Gateshead 1,324
Newcastle upon Tyne 4,309
North Tyneside 822
South Tyneside 48
Sunderland 834
Isles of Scilly 0
Avon 10,781
Bedfordshire 4,725
Berkshire 12,892
Buckinghamshire 6,503
Cambridgeshire 5,372
Cheshire 6,534
Cleveland 2,367
Cornwall 2,095
Cumbria 2,535
Derbyshire 4,313
Devon 8,674
Dorset 6,475
Durham 1,987
Pupils of compulsory school age1 in independent schools in each LEA area in England: January 1994
LEA Pupils
East Sussex 9,060
Essex 9,349
Gloucestershire 5,800
Hampshire 15,827
Hereford and Worcester 8,434
Hertfordshire 14,164
Humberside 2,812
Isle of Wight 858
Kent 14,865
Lancashire 7,757
Leicestershire 6,762
Lincolnshire 3,352
Norfolk 5,135
North Yorkshire 6,862
Northamptonshire 5,193
Northumberland 647
Nottinghamshire 5,654
Oxfordshire 9,675
Shropshire 4,695
Somerset 6,973
Staffordshire 4,105
Suffolk 6,430
Surrey 26,273
Warwickshire 4,779
West Sussex 8,272
Wiltshire 4,697
England 421,108
1 Pupils aged 5 to 15 as at 31 August 1993.