§ Mr. BlunkettTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if she will list the number and percentage of pupils aged five, six and seven years in maintained infant school classes of 31 or more in each year since 1990 with figures which are available for 1996 showing the percentage change between 1995 and 1996(a) by each local education authority in England, (b) by region and (c) in total. [40149]
§ Mr. Robin SquireInformation on the sizes of classes as taught by key stage was first collected centrally in January 1996. Provisional information for key stage 1 is shown in the following table:
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Number and percentages of pupils at key 1 in one teacher classes of size 31 or more in maintained primary schools in local education authority area and region in England: January 1996 (provisional) Pupils Percentage Corporation of London 0 0.0 Camden 127 4.0 Greenwich 470 7.5 Hackney 413 8.0 Hammersmith and Fulham 313 11.0 Islington 443 8.1 Kennington and Chelsea 62 3.5 Lambeth 381 6.7 Lewisham 567 8.6 Southwark 707 9.3 Tower Hamlets 349 6.8 Wandsworth 1,118 18.9 Westminster 224 9.1 Barking 734 12.0 Barnet 730 8.5 Bexley 3,984 45.3 Brent 786 11.0 Bromley 5,121 49.0 Croydon 3,497 31.3 Ealing 2,499 26.3 Enfield 3,621 39.2 Haringey 566 8.2 Harrow 1,929 32.4 Havering 2,439 29.2 Hillingdon 1,378 19.6 Hounslow 2,354 35.8 Kingston upon Thames 3,430 82.4 Merton 1,958 44.7 Newham 734 7.7 Redbridge 3,307 48.5 Richmond upon Thames 1,414 31.3 Sutton 1.077 23.5 723W
Numbers and percentages of pupils at key stage 1 in one teacher classes of size 31 or more in maintained primary schools in each local education authority area and region in England: January 1996 (provisional) Pupils Percentage Waltham Forest 1,020 13.6 Birmingham 10,500 25.7 Coventry 3,510 30.9 Dudley 2,928 29.9 Sandwell 4,303 37.8 Solihull 3,917 49.7 Walsall 2,392 26.0 Wolverhampton 3,176 35.5 Knowsley 1,594 22.7 Liverpool 4,465 23.9 St. Helens 2,179 34.5 Sefton 4,540 43.6 Wirral 2,342 19.4 Bolton 4,861 51.6 Bury 2,926 45.6 Manchester 3,033 19.8 Oldham 3,488 40.5 Rochdale 3,084 39.5 Salford 2,946 32.8 Stockport 3,197 29.7 Tameside 4,316 48.3 Trafford 3,151 41.8 Wigan 4,400 40.7 Barnsley 2,278 30 Doncaster 3,584 31.9 Rotheham 1,438 16.8 Sheffield 3,116 19.8 Bradford 5,397 31.6 Calderdale 2,461 35.3 Kirklees 4,374 35.2 Leeds 8,677 35.0 Wakefield 2,680 26.1 Gateshead 699 10.3 Newcastle upon Tyne 2,590 30.0 North Tyneside 2,248 33.9 South Tyneside 1,314 22.7 Sunderland 1,246 11.2 Isles of Scilly 0 0.0 Avon 10,067 31.6 Bedfordshire 5,785 31.9 Berkshire 4,908 22.4 Buckinghamshire 7,269 35.8 Cambridgeshire 5,299 22.2 Cheshire 10,142 28.5 Cleveland 2,979 13.4 Cornwall 4,399 27.6 Cumbria 4,476 28.8 Derbyshire 12,144 41.1 Devon 7.589 24.2 Dorset 8,266 43.5 Durham 5,910 28.3 East Sussex 8,927 43.0 Essex 9,946 19.3 Gloucestershire 5,083 27.2 Hampshire 17,282 30.8 Hereford and Worcester 4,435 21.1 Hertfordshire 8,404 26.0 Humberside 8,874 28.7 Isle of Wight 904 23.8 Kent 14,765 26.7 Lancashire 20,425 40.4 Leicestershire 6,071 20.2 Lincolnshire 4,092 20.2 Norfolk 4,096 19.1 North Yorkshire 4,613 20.1 Northamptonshire 4,780 21.0 Northumberland 4,013 40.9 Nottinghamshire 6,397 21.0 Oxfordshire 2,333 14.4
Numbers and percentages of pupils at key stage 1 in one teacher classes of size 31 or more in maintained primary schools in each local education authority area and region in England: January 1996 (provisional) Pupils Percentage Shropshire 3,638 27.6 Somserset 4,239 26.5 Staffordshire 12,408 33.2 Suffolk 3,009 15.6 Surrey 6,848 22.6 Warwickshire 7,062 42.9 West Sussex 3,963 19.2 Wiltshire 4,037 20.3 By region North 25,475 23.7 North-west 81,089 34.5 East Anglia 12,404 19.2 Yorkshire and Humberside 47,492 28.2 West Midlands 58,269 31.1 East Midlands 33,484 25.1 Greater London 47,752 23.3 Other South-east 91,334 26.3 South-west 43,680 28.6 England 440,979 27.5 1 Number of key stage 1 pupils being taught in single teacher classes of 31 or more expressed as a percentage of all key stage 1 pupils in single teacher classes.