HC Deb 25 November 1996 vol 286 cc23-4W
Mr. Blunkett

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if she will list the number of grant-maintained schools in each local education authority area in England; and for each local education authority what is the percentage of secondary school children in the grant-maintained sector. [5900]

Mr. Robin Squire

The following table shows the number of primary, secondary and special grant-maintained schools in each local education authority in England, and the proportion of pupils in maintained secondary schools who attend grant-maintained schools.

LEA Area Number of GM schools Secondary GM pupil per cent.
Barking 0 0.0
Barnet 12 52.0
Barnsley 0 0.0
Bath and NE Somerset 2 16.1
Bedfordshire 17 21.8
Berkshire 24 21.2
Bexley 8 25.2
Birmingham 22 24.0
Bolton 4 16.5
Bradford 14 11.9
Brent 16 87.5
Bormley 23 93.1
Buckinghamshire 20 26.7
Bury 1 0.0
Calderdale 16 65.5
Cambridgeshire 23 39.6
Camden 3 22.6
Cheshire 8 4.1
City of Bristol 0 0.0
City of Kingston Upon Hull 0 0.0
Cornwall 1 0.0
Corporation of London 0 0.0
Coventry 0 0.0
Croydon 12 51.7
Cumbria 41 38.3
Derbyshire 29 32.3
Devon 8 9.8
Doncaster 1 5.2
Dorset 17 24.4
Dudley 7 26.3
Durham 0 0.0
Ealing 9 46.1
East Riding of Yorkshire 4 0.0
East Sussex 0 0.0
Enfield 6 31.5
Essex 149 71.6
Gateshead 0 0.0
Gloucestershire 50 70.4
Greenwich 1 0.0
Hackney 1 0.0
Hammersmith 1 20.9
Hampshire 32 20.1
Haringey 0 0.0
Harrow 1 6.8
Hartlepool 0 0.0
Havering 4 26.4
Hereford and Worcester 7 7.8
Hertfordshire 40 34.9
Hillingdon 22 84.7
Hounslow 2 14.0
Isle of Wight 0 0.0
Isles of Scilly 0 0.0
LEA Area Number of GM schools Secondary GM pupil per cent.
Islington 0 0.0
Kensington and Chelsea 3 20.3
Kent 96 56.9
Kingston upon Thames 6 47.4
Kirklees 2 5.7
Knowsley 1 7.7
Lambeth 18 59.4
Lancashire 15 8.4
Leeds 2 2.5
Leicestershire 9 8.0
Lewisham 1 0.0
Lincolnshire 56 48.7
Liverpool 5 10.5
Manchester 1 0.0
Merton 1 10.4
Middlesbrough 0 0.0
Newcastle upon Tyne 0 0.0
Newham 1 4.0
Norfolk 32 23.5
North East Lincolnshire 0 0.0
North Lincolnshire 0 0.0
North Somerset 0 0.0
North Tyneside 1 1.6
North Yorkshire 1 0.0
Northamptonshire 24 21.0
Northumberland 2 2.3
Nottinghamshire 5 3.6
Oldham 0 0.0
Oxfordshire 1 0.0
Redbridge 1 6.9
Redcar and Cleveland 0 0.0
Richmond upon Thames 0 0.0
Rochdale 8 15.8
Rotherham 0 0.0
Salford 1 4.1
Sandwell 2 9.4
Sefton 0 0.0
Sheffield 11 7.4
Shropshire 9 18.6
Solihull 1 0.0
Somerset 6 2.1
South Gloucestershire 0 0.0
South Tyneside 0 0.0
Southwark 11 26.7
St. Helens 0 0.0
Staffordshire 10 6.5
Stockport 0 0.0
Stockton on Tees 0 0.0
Suffolk 0 0.0
Sunderland 0 0.0
Surrey 36 35.1
Sutton 11 58.9
Tameside 3 17.4
Tower Hamlets 1 7.0
Trafford 5 34.1
Wakefield 0 0.0
Walsall 11 36.8
Waltham Forest 4 18.8
Wandsworth 11 74.7
Warwickshire 14 20.2
West Sussex 1 0.0
Westminster 0 0.0
Wigan 0 0.0
Wiltshire 42 45.0
Wirral 4 15.4
Wolverhampton 3 16.1
York 0 0.0
England 1,147 19.2