HC Deb 17 October 1995 vol 264 cc232-5W
Mr. Alan W. Williams

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what his her Department's latest estimate of the number of children in(a) primary schools and (b) secondary schools in England and Wales that are being taught in classes of over 30 pupils. [35997]

Mrs. Gillian Shephard

The number of pupils in England in single-teacher classes of 31 pupils over in January 1995 was just under 1.2 million in maintained primary schools and 201,000 in maintained secondary schools.

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

Mr. Don Foster

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what percentage, and how many primary school pupils were in classes of more than 30 in January in each local education authority and in total; and what was the actual and percentage change in

Numbers and percentages of pupils in classes of 31 or more taught by one teacher in maintained primary schools in each local education authority in England: 1994 and 1995 (provisional)
1994 1995 (provisional) Change
Number Percentage1 Number Percentage1 Number Percentage2
City 0 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.0
Camden 542 6.1 605 6.7 63 11.6
Greenwich 2,301 13.3 2,555 14.5 254 11.0
Hackney 499 3.7 569 4.0 70 14.0
Hammersmith 795 11.1 1,294 16.6 499 62.8
Islington 892 6.9 1,055 8.1 163 18.3
Kensington and Chelsea 454 9.0 221 4.5 -233 -51.3
Lambeth 816 5.2 540 3.4 -276 -33.8
Lewisham 1,318 7.2 1,192 6.4 -126 -9.6
Southwark 2,331 12.3 2,483 12.7 152 6.5
Tower Hamlets 638 4.9 778 5.1 140 21.9
Wandsworth 1,666 11.8 1,459 10.3 -207 -12.4
Westminster 428 5.9 646 9.4 218 50.9
Barking 1,415 9.9 1,317 8.7 -98 -6.9
Barnet 2,434 11.6 2,291 10.9 -143 -5.9
Bexley 5,910 32.0 7,834 39.2 1,924 32.6
Brent 2,157 11.4 2,444 13.0 287 13.3
Bromley 10,385 47.5 11,596 51.8 1,211 11.7
Croydon 4,896 20.5 5,973 23.7 1,077 22.0
Ealing 4,146 20.3 4,137 19.2 -9 -0.2
Enfield 7,237 35.4 8,192 39.7 955 13.2
Haringey 732 4.3 1,045 6.0 313 42.8
Harrow 3,544 22.6 4,152 25.5 608 17.2
Havering 4,176 22.1 4,662 24.1 486 11.6
Hillingdon 4,896 27.5 4,833 26.4 -63 -1.3
Hounslow 5,319 33.5 5,691 34.1 372 7.0
Kingston upon Thames 5,484 57.9 6,216 64.0 732 13.3
Merton 3,114 25.3 3,299 26.2 185 5.9
Newham 1,317 6.0 2,680 11.3 1,363 103.5
Redbridge 8,456 52.8 8,337 51.5 -119 -1.4
Richmond upon Thames 1,134 11.4 2,040 20.4 906 79.9
Sutton 4,696 40.1 4,328 35.7 -368 -7.8
Waltham Forest 3,200 18.4 3,330 18.8 130 4.1
Birmingham 27,164 28.4 28,251 29.2 1,087 4.0
Coventry 5,541 21.9 7,875 29.4 2,334 42.1
Dudley 7,497 31.1 6,935 28.5 -562 -7.5
Sandwell 10,175 37.5 10,815 39.1 640 6.3
Solihull 6,711 36.9 7,506 40.3 795 11.8
Walsall 5,577 25.1 6,428 27.9 851 15.3
Wolverhampton 5,155 24.1 5,846 26.8 691 13.4
Knowsley 5,915 34.8 6,300 34.7 385 6.5
Liverpool 12,620 26.6 12,541 27 -79 -0.6
St. Helens 5,437 37.5 5,507 37.4 70 1.3
Sefton 8,258 33.7 8,793 35.1 535 6.5
Wirral 5,928 20.4 6,076 20.7 148 2.5
Bolton 9,046 41.0 10,366 45.9 1,320 14.6
Bury 6,239 40.0 6,434 41.1 195 3.1
Manchester 9,619 23.4 10,211 24.2 592 6.2
Oldham 8,617 41.1 8,823 41.0 206 2.4
Rochdale 8,020 43.8 8,102 41.8 82 1.0
Salford 6,817 30.6 6,975 30.8 158 2.3
Stockport 8,179 33.8 7,858 31.8 -321 -3.9
Tameside 12,079 56.4 11,291 51.8 -788 -6.5
Trafford 9,151 49.6 9,689 51.1 538 5.9
Wigan 9,997 38.2 11,375 42.7 1,378 13.8
Barnsley 5,656 28.3 6,201 30.9 545 9.6
Doncaster 7,548 28.4 8,338 31.7 790 10.5
Rotherham 2,569 11.5 3,269 14.4 700 27.2
Sheffield 8,281 21.9 11,119 28.3 2,838 34.3
Bradford 8,781 27.3 10,707 32.4 1,926 21.9
Calderdale 5,268 30.1 5,666 30.9 398 7.6
Kirklees 9,372 29.9 12,290 38.2 2,918 31.1

numbers compared with January 1994 in each local education authority and in total. [36759]

Mr. Robin Squire

The information requested is shown in the table.

Numbers and percentages of pupils in classes of 31 or more taught by one teacher in maintained primary schools in each local educationauthority in England: 1994 and 1995 (provisional)
1994 1995 (provisional) Change
Number Percentage1 Number Percentage1 Number Percentage2
Leeds 19,405 32.7 21,245 35.1 1,840 9.5
Wakefield 9,996 37.0 10,544 37.8 548 5.5
Gateshead 1,862 11.2 2,237 13.2 375 20.1
Newcastle upon Tyne 5,843 28.5 6,744 33.1 901 15.4
North Tyneside 3,905 26.0 4,930 32.7 1,025 26.2
South Tyneside 3,456 23.9 3,616 24.7 160 4.6
Sunderland 4,244 16.2 3,601 13.5 -643 -15.2
Isles of Scilly 31 18.5 0 0.0 -31 -100.0
Avon 26,753 35.5 26,919 34.5 166 0.6
Bedfordshire 9,064 24.4 10,328 26.7 1,264 13.9
Berkshire 16,290 28.9 15,605 26.8 -685 -4.2
Buckingshamshire 19,072 33.3 21,205 35.6 2,133 11.2
Cambridgeshire 15,079 27.2 14,946 26.8 -133 -0.9
Cheshire 30,193 36.2 30,315 35.5 122 0.4
Cleveland 13,386 23.2 13,859 23.7 473 3.5
Cornwall 13,441 35.1 14,004 35.6 563 4.2
Cumbria 9,385 24.2 11,452 29.0 2,067 22.0
Derbyshire 29,982 39.9 32,959 42.7 2,977 9.9
Devon 21,175 27.3 23,659 29.8 2,484 11.7
Dorset 18,142 44.0 18,038 42.8 -104 -0.6
Durham 15,012 28.9 15,455 29.5 443 3.0
East Sussex 19,297 40.7 19,691 40.8 394 2.0
Essex 30,729 25.8 31,875 25.8 1,146 3.7
Gloucestershire 11,123 26.5 11,595 26.7 472 4.2
Hampshire 44,304 34.2 43,976 33.9 -328 -0.7
Hereford and Worcester 9,910 21.1 10,533 21.8 623 6.3
Hertfordshire 21,344 27.7 23,054 29.0 1,710 8.0
Humberside 25,914 33.4 26,896 33.8 982 3.8
Isle of Wight 1,862 26.6 1,860 26.4 -2 -0.1
Kent 41,570 33.6 44,208 34.4 2,638 6.3
Lancashire 45,112 38.5 48,832 40.4 3,720 8.2
Leicestershire 14,433 20.2 17,567 23.6 3,134 21.7
Lincolnshire 12,642 26.6 14,632 29.8 1,990 15.7
Norfolk 11,175 19.5 12,066 20.5 891 8.0
North Yorkshire 13,702 24.8 17,758 31.3 4,056 29.6
Northamptonshire 9,590 20.6 10,576 21.9 986 10.3
Northumberland 7,901 41.4 8,030 41.8 129 1.6
Nottinghamshire 19,947 24.2 23,142 27.8 3,195 16.0
Oxfordshire 5,850 15.3 6,422 16.4 572 9.8
Shropshire 9,085 27.2 9,972 29.0 887 9.8
Somerset 10,476 30.1 10,776 30.1 300 2.9
Staffordshire 30,738 35.3 31,147 35.3 409 1.3
Suffolk 5,608 13.8 6,396 15.1 788 14.1
Surrey 13,741 20.2 12,118 17.7 -1623 -11.8
Warwickshire 12,740 30.6 13,980 32.9 1,240 9.7
West Sussex 10,934 21.6 12,879 24.2 1,945 17.8
Wiltshire 12,185 26.5 14,703 31.0 2,518 20.7
England 1,076,173 28.2 1,155,726 29.6 79,553 7.4
1 Pupils in single teacher classes of 31 and over expressed as a percentage of all pupils in single teacher classes.
2 Change in the number of pupils in classes of 31 or more pupils taught by one teacher between 1994 and 1995 expressed as a percentage of pupils in classses of 31 or more pupils taught by one teacher in 1994.