HC Deb 21 November 1995 vol 267 cc99-100W
Mr. Pearson

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what is the estimated number at January 1995 of primary school pupils educated in class sizes of 40 and above in the Dudley metropolitan borough; and what proportion this figure is of all primary children in England and Wales educated in these sized classes. [578]

Mr. Robin Squire

The number of pupils in single teacher classes of 40 or more pupils in maintained primary schools in Dudley local education authority area in January 1995, provisional, was 1,027. This represented 5.6 per cent. of pupils in single teacher classes of 40 or more pupils in maintained primary schools in England.

Information on classes in Wales is the responsibility of my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Wales.