HC Deb 11 June 1997 vol 295 cc460-1W
Mr. Burns

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will list the average class size in each grant-maintained and LEA-controlled primary and secondary school, in the west Chelmsford constituency on 31 March, or the latest available date before that. [2252]

Mr. Byers

I refer the hon. Member to the answer given to the hon. Member for Spelthorne (Mr. Wilshire) on 10 June 1997,Official Report, column 365 which explains the Department's present position on the publication of data for individual schools.

Mr. Burstow

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many classes of five, six and seven-year-olds in each local education authority had more than 30 children on 1 January 1997 based on returns from the All Schools Census; and what this figure is as a percentage of the total number of classes of five, six and seven-year-olds in each case. [3192]

Mr. Byers

Information on classes of five, six and seven-year-olds was not collected centrally.