§ Mr. BlunkettTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many five, six and seven-year-olds there are(a) in each local education authority and (b) nationally. [37150]
§ Mr. Robin Squire[holding answer 15 July 1996]: The latest information on the numbers of pupils in school in each local education authority area in England who were aged between five and seven years of age is shown in the following table.
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Pupils aged 5–7 years of age (1)(2) in local education authority area in England January 1995 Local education authority Pupils Corporation of London 127 Camden 6,018 Greenwich 9,160 Hackney 8,170 Hammersmith and Fulham 4,419 Islington 6,606 Kensington and Chelsea 5,572 Lambeth 8,601 Lewisham 9,130 Southwark 9,815 Tower Hamlets 8,760 Wandsworth 8,605 Westminster 5,072 Barking and Dagenham 6,846 Barnet 11,376 Bexley 9,093 Brent 9,641 Bromley 11,282 Croydon 13,280 Ealing 11,514 Enfield 10,669 Haringey 8,623 Harrow 8,035 Havering 9,070 Hillingdon 9,676 Hounslow 8,032 Kingston upon Thames 5,060 Merton 6,509 Newham 11,213 Redbridge 9,295 Richmond upon Thames 6,210 Sutton 6,476 Waltham Forest 8,791 Birmingham 45,341 Coventry 12,801 Dudley 11,898 Sandwell 12,664 Solihull 8,552 Walsall 11,099 Wolverhampton 10,382 Knowsley 7,554 Liverpool 20,220 St. Helens 7,300 Sefton 11,589 Wirral 13,938 Bolton 11,323 Bury 7,358
Pupils aged 5–7 years of age (1)(2) in local education authority area in England January 1995 Local education authority Pupils Manchester 18,999 Oldham 10,020 Rochdale 9,278 Salford 9,928 Stockport 11,674 Tameside 9,515 Trafford 8,779 Wigan 12,284 Barnsley 8,680 Doncaster 12,454 Rotherham 10,421 Sheffield 19,243 Bradford 21,809 Calderdale 8,330 Kirklees 15,657 Leeds 28,340 Wakefield 13,154 Gateshead 7,545 Newcastle upon Tyne 10,333 North Tyneside 7,642 South Tyneside 6,330 Sunderland 12,381 Isles of Scilly 63 Avon 36,777 Bedfordshire 23,697 Berkshire 30,924 Buckinghamshire 27,074 Cambridge 26,654 Cheshire 38,923 Cleveland 24,624 Cornwall 17,641 Cumbria 17,932 Derbyshire 36,029 Devon 38,050 Dorset 22,743 Durham 22,886 East Sussex 25,100 Essex 60,963 Gloucestershire 21,148 Hampshire 63,188 Hereford and Worcester 26,592 Hertfordshire 40,358 Humberside 35,985 Isle of Wight 4,490 Kent 61,756 Lancashire 57,654 Leicestershire 36,577 Lincolnshire 22,699 Norfolk 27,148 North Yorkshire 26,504 Northamptonshire 25,429 Northumberland 11,389 Nottinghamshire 40,605 Oxfordshire 22,009 Shropshire 16,623 Somerset 18,053 Staffordshire 41,776 Suffolk 24,876 Surrey 38,875 Warwickshire 19,322 West Sussex 26,245 Wiltshire 23,782 England 1,918,724 1 Ages as at 31 August 1994. 2 Includes pupils in all maintained and non-maintained schools.