§ Mr. FlynnTo ask the Secretary of State for Wales what is his most recent calculation of the proportion of Welsh families that have state nursery education available to them in each education authority for children aged(a) three to four years and (b) four to five years. [9352]
§ Mr. RichardsNo calculations have been made on the basis of families. The following table shows the number of children at maintained nursery and primary schools at January 1995, with estimated ages at 31 December 1994, expressed as a percentage of the Registrar General's mid-1994 population estimates for three and four-year-olds.
Percentage of children at maintained nursery and primary schools, by LEA and by age Age LEA 3 years 4 years Clwyd 63.4 98.5 Dyfed 43.4 86.7 Gwent 50.3 93.6 Gwynedd 23.2 75.2 Mid Glamorgan 52.9 91.9 Powys 26.8 87.1 South Glamorgan 38.2 80.4 West Glamorgan 72.7 99.2 Wales 49.7 90.2