HC Deb 25 November 1996 vol 286 cc24-6W
Mr. Blunkett

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what was(a) the number and (b) the percentage of three and four-year-olds in pre-school provision in each local eduction authority and nationally in January.

Mr. Robin Squire

Information on pupils aged three and four in maintained nursery schools and nursery classes in maintained primary schools in England in January 1996 is shown in the following table.

Pupils aged three and four in maintained nursery schools and nursery classes in maintained primary schools in each Local Education Authority area in England January 1996
Number of three and four-year-olds Percentage of population at 31 December 1995
Camden 1,049 25
Greenwich 3,344 50
Hackney 2,242 33
Hammersmith and Fulham 1,731 44
Islington 1,908 37
Kensington and Chelsea 851 27
Lambeth 2,433 31
Lewisham 2,753 37
Southwark 3,065 41
Tower Hamlets 3,345 61
Wandsworth 2,387 33
Westminster 1,246 32
Barking and Dagenham 2,101 46
Barnet 2,544 31
Bexley 1,533 25
Brent 2,600 36
Bromley 183 3
Croydon 2,148 23
Ealing 3,821 46
Enfield 1,682 22
Haringey 2,769 44
Harrow 1,029 19
Havering 552 10
Hillingdon 3,383 50
Hounslow 2,396 40
Kingston upon Thames 1,334 39
Merton 2,711 54
Newham 4,575 52
Redbridge 1,430 22
Richmond upon Thames 863 21
Sutton 1,949 40
Waltham Forest 2,817 39
Birmingham 11,217 35
Coventry 2,085 24
Dudley 3,207 39
Sandwell 4,556 53
Solihull 1,872 37
Walsall 4,388 59
Wolverhampton 3,912 54
Knowsley 2,957 63
Liverpool 6,160 46
St. Helens 1,620 33
Sefton 2,882 40
Wirral 2,251 26
Bolton 3,172 42
Bury 1,625 32
Manchester 7,307 53
Oldham 2,452 37
Rochdale 2,243 35
Salford 3,663 55
Stockport 2,188 29
Tameside 2,596 40
Trafford 2,640 45
Wigan 2,167 25
Barnsley 2,957 47
Doncaster 3,654 44
Rotherham 3,347 47
Sheffield 5,729 42
Bradford 6,550 44
Calderdale 1,945 35
Kirklees 4,475 41
Leeds 8,980 46
Pupils aged three and four in maintained nursery schools and nursery classes in maintained primary schools in each Local Education Authority area in England January 1996
Number of three and four-year-olds Percentage of population at 31 December 1995
Wakefield 4,813 54
Gateshead 1,926 37
Newcastle upon Tyne 2,799 38
North Tyneside 2,671 55
South Tyneside 2,226 55
Sunderland 3,678 44
Avon 5,267 21
Bedfordshire 5,254 32
Berkshire 6,987 32
Buckinghamshire 3,342 18
Cambridgeshire 2,254 12
Cheshire 5,569 22
Cleveland 10,017 63
Cornwall 1,689 15
Cumbria 3,470 28
Derbyshire 9,815 39
Devon 3,153 13
Dorset 800 5
Durham 7,325 47
East Sussex 1,963 12
Essex 3,389 8
Gloucestershire 22 0
Hampshire 2,021 5
Hereford and Worcester 2,179 12
Hertfordshire 9,900 36
Humberside 9,369 39
Isle of Wight 170 6
Kent 2,467 6
Lancashire 8,163 21
Leicestershire 5,090 20
Lincolnshire 2,349 16
Norfolk 1,409 8
North Yorkshire 3,928 22
Northamptonshire 3,332 20
Northumberland 3,112 43
Nottinghamshire 14,125 51
Oxfordshire 3,377 20
Shropshire 2,325 21
Somerset 607 5
Staffordshire 7,336 27
Suffolk 3,306 19
Surrey 3,238 12
Warwickshire 2,108 17
West Sussex 1,281 8
Wiltshire 792 5
England1 364,271 28
1 Includes Corporation of London and Isles of Scilly.

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