§ Mr. Gordon PrenticeTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will place in rank order the number and percentage of school pupils who are(a) statemented and (b) awaiting statementing in each local education authority in England. [19304]
§ Mrs. GillanThe following table shows the number of school pupils with statements, and this number expressed as a percentage of total school pupils, attending school in each local education authority in January 1996. Figures are taken from returns to the Department in the annual schools census. For any particular LEA, they will include pupils with statements placed by other LEAs, and exclude such pupils placed by the LEA in other LEA areas. Information on numbers of pupils awaiting statements is not collected centrally.
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Pupils with statements in schools by Local Education Authority area in England—January 1996 LEA Number Percentage Doncaster 2,470 4.59 St. Helens 1,399 4.52 Cornwall 3,113 4.19 Wigan 2,112 4.12 Cumbria 3,222 4.00 Norfolk 4,368 3.83 Shropshire 2,662 3.76 Wandsworth 1,288 3.68 Lancashire 8,472 3.57 Greenwich 1,391 3.56 Islington 887 3.52 Hammersmith 703 3.52 Devon 5,497 3.46 East Sussex 3,619 3.46 Derbyshire 5,360 3.42 Tower Hamlets 1,252 3.41 Sunderland 1,785 3.39 Kirklees 2,244 3.35 Suffolk 3,473 3.31 Camden 955 3.28 Bury 1,041 3.27 Lincolnshire 3,180 3.25 Buckinghamshire 3,703 3.24 Durham 3,264 3.22 Leeds 3,896 3.20 Cheshire 5,354 3.19 Rotherham 1,463 3.18 Knowsley 963 3.18 Waltham 1,117 3.11 Surrey 5,156 3.10 Avon 4,817 3.08 4W
Pupils with statements in schools by Local Education Authority area in England—January 1996 LEA Number Percentage North Tyneside 1,015 3.05 Wirral 1,808 3.03 Isle of Wight 594 3.03 Stockport 1,464 3.02 Hampshire 7,454 3.01 Lewisham 1,090 3.01 Bromley 1,426 3.00 Kent 7,844 2.98 Barnsley 1,054 2.98 Hillingdon 1,207 2.96 Somerset 2,234 2.92 Lambeth 835 2.90 Hackney 865 2.90 Sefton 1,495 2.86 Berkshire 3,849 2.86 Liverpool 2,494 2.85 West Sussex 3,129 2.84 Hereford and Worcester 3,110 2.78 Hounslow 1,007 2.78 Leicestershire 4,291 2.78 Gloucestershire 2,481 2.77 Bedfordshire 2,736 2.76 Staffordshire 4,864 2.75 Cambridgeshire 3.060 2.74 Walsall 1,369 2.70 Tameside 1,048 2.70 Newcastle upon Tyne 1,260 2.69 Sutton 763 2.68 Northumberland 1,416 2.67 Hertfordshire 4,881 2.67 Havering 971 2.67 Southwark 1,029 2.65 South Tyneside 713 2.63 Wiltshire 2,463 2.63 Merton 708 2.57 Cleveland 2,744 2.56 Wakefield 1,458 2.54 Newham 1,121 2.51 Bolton 1,234 2.48 Dorset 2,477 2.46 Warwickshire 2,006 2.45 Harrow 810 2.44 Wolverhampton 1,089 2.39 Haringey 821 2.39 Kingston upon Thames 551 2.39 Sheffield 1,848 2.38 North Yorkshire 2,787 2.37 Birmingham 4,475 2.37 Northamptonshire 2,561 2.36 Manchester 1,798 2.33 Brent 892 2.30 Claderdale 821 2.30 Bexley 857 2.27 Essex 5,536 2.27 Barking 630 2.26 Oxfordshire 2,157 2.25 Humberside 3,352 2.22 Bradford 2,076 2.19 Coventry 1,152 2.16 Trafford 795 2.06 Gateshead 653 2.00 Solihull 775 1.98 Enfield 904 1.97 Dudley 971 1.93 Barnet 972 1.90 Ealing 876 1.83 Sandwell 961 1.80 Richmond upon Thames 482 1.80 Redbridge 718 1.75 Westminster 403 1.75 Salford 668 1.67 Croydon 905 1.65
Pupils with statements in schools by Local Education Authority area in England—January 1996 LEA Number Percentage Isle of Scilly 4 1.51 Oldham 628 1.42 Kensington and Chelsea 258 1.23 Nottinghamshire 2,011 1.18 Corporation of London 2 0.11 England 227,324 2.80