HC Deb 11 March 1996 vol 273 cc426-7W
Mr. Spearing

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if she will place in the Library for each of the local education authority areas participating in her scheme for early years education, the names of the providers who have agreed to supply existing, or new places, for the scheme together with the number of full-time equivalent places offered and the nature of their settings. [17869]

Mr. Robin Squire

[holding answer 28 February 1996]: A list of providers classified by type has been placed in the Library of the House. The estimated number of four-year-olds in the maintained sector in each of the phase 1 authorities is listed below.

LEA Estimates number of four year-olds in maintained provision at January 1995
Kensington and Chelsea 800
Wandsworth 2,600
Westminster 1,100
Norfolk 6,300