Nursery Education (Hansard, 3 November 1995)

§ Mr. Robin Squire

Information 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.

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)
	³three	²four	Percentage of population aged three and four at 31 December 1994
Camden	845	4	25
Greenwich	2,229	746	48
Hackney	1,898	11	35
Hammersmith and Fulham	1,069	271	46
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

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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 Augustl994)
	³three	²four	Percentage of population aged three and four at 31 December 1994
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
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

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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 August1994)
	³three	²four	Percentage of population aged three and four at 31 December 1994
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
England^{3 4}	277,376	46,064	27
¹ Includes pupils who became four years of age by 1 January 1995.²
Excludes pupils who became five years of age by 1 January 1995.
³ Includes Isles of Scilly.
⁴ Includes Corporation of London.