HC Deb 20 May 1997 vol 294 cc27-9W
Mr. Baldry

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will publish for each local education authority the number of classes at key stage 1 which have 31 or more pupils. [72]

Mr. Byers

The information requested is shown in the following table.

Numbers of Key Stage 1 classes1 taught by one teacher with 31 or more pupils in maintained primary schools in each local education authority area in England
January 1996 Number
Corporation of London n/a
Camden 4
Greenwich 15
Hackney 13
Hammersmith 10
Islington 14
Kensington and Chelsea 2
Lambeth 12
Lewisham 18
Southwark 22
Tower Hamlets 11
Wandsworth 35
Westminster 7
Barking 23
Barnet 23
Bexley 123
Brent 24
Bromley 159
Croydon 109
Ealing 78
Enfield 113
Haringey 18
Harrow 60
Havering 76
Hillingdon 43
Hounslow 72
Kingston upon Thames 100
Numbers of Key Stage 1 classes1 taught by one teacher with 31 or more pupils in maintained primary schools in each local education authority area in England
January 1996 Number
Merton 58
Newham 23
Redbridge 99
Richmond upon Thames 44
Sutton 32
Waltham Forest 32
Birmingham 329
Coventry 109
Dudley 88
Sandwell 130
Solihull 117
Walsall 73
Wolverhampton 96
Knowsley 49
Liverpool 139
St. Helens 64
Sefton 137
Wirral 72
Bolton 143
Bury 88
Manchester 93
Oldham 105
Rochdale 93
Salford 89
Stockport 95
Tameside 131
Trafford 95
Wigan 131
Barnsley 70
Doncaster 108
Rotherham 45
Sheffield 97
Bradford 165
Calderdale 76
Kirklees 134
Leeds 264
Wakefield 82
Gateshead 22
Newcastle upon Tyne 79
North Tyneside 69
South Tyneside 40
Sunderland 39
Isles of Scilly 0
Avon 312
Bedfordshire 174
Berkshire 151
Buckinghamshire 220
Cambridgeshire 164
Cheshire 308
Cleveland 92
Cornwall 135
Cumbria 138
Derbyshire 363
Devon 233
Dorset 253
Durham 181
East Sussex 277
Essex 311
Gloucestershire 157
Hampshire 532
Hereford and Worcester 137
Hertfordshire 261
Humberside 272
Isle of Wight 28
Kent 461
Lancashire 610
Leicestershire 184
Lincolnshire 126
Norfolk 127
North Yorkshire 142
Northamptonshire 149
Numbers of Key Stage 1 classes1 taught by one teacher with 31 or more pupils in maintained primary schools in each local education authority area in England
January 1996 Number
Northumberland 121
Nottinghamshire 197
Oxfordshire 72
Shropshire 111
Somerset 132
Staffordshire 374
Suffolk 93
Surrey 213
Warwickshire 214
West Sussex 123
Wiltshire 126
England 13502

n/a = not applicable.

1 Figures include reception classes.