§ Mr. BurstowTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many appeals have been made by parents on the grounds of non-admission of their child to the school of their choice, in each local education authority, in the latest year for which figures are available. [12795]
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§ Mr. ByersThe information requested by the hon. Member is set out in the following tables. More statistical details on admission appeals are in a departmental press notice published on 15 October. I have arranged for copies to be placed in the Library.
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align="center">Number of admission appeals heard in maintained primary and secondary schools by local education authority area England 1995–96 Number of appeals heard Local Education Authority Area Primary Secondary England 18,794 25,206 North-east 652 605 Hartlepool3 0 15 Middlesbrough3 2 0 Redcar and Cleveland3 0 41 Stockon on Tees3 9 65 Durham 297 102 Northumberland 6 66 Gateshead 48 18 Newcastle upon Tyne 130 141 North Tyneside 16 2 South Tyneside 55 26 Sunderland 89 129 North-west and Merseyside 3,608 4,433 North west 3,216 3,353 Cheshire 62 154 Cumbria 167 49 Bolton 168 178 Bury 150 230 Manchester 486 342 Oldham 37 150 Rochdale 190 87 Salford 135 128 Stockport 94 149 Tameside 105 289 Trafford 139 207 Wigan 87 120 Lancashire 1,396 1,270 Merseyside 392 1,080 Knowsley 17 0 Liverpool 186 620 St. Helens 78 43 Sefton 63 123 Wirral 48 294 Yorkshire and Humber 1,313 2,942 East Riding of Yorkshire3 41 163 City of Kingston upon Hull3 162 160 North East Lincolnshire3 27 81 North Lincolnshire3 14 22 City of York3 7 97 North Yorkshire3 85 356 Barnsley 40 31 Doncaster 28 52 Rotherham 32 82 Sheffield 85 156 Bradford 156 1,055 Calderdale1 62 179 Kirklees 78 86 Leeds 408 388 Wakefield 88 34 East Midlands 599 853 Derbyshire 199 193 Leicestershire 86 193 Lincolnshire 83 246 675W
align="center">Number of admission appeals heard in maintained primary and secondary schools by local education authority area England 1995–96 Number of appeals heard Local Education Authority Area Primary Secondary Northamptonshire 68 161 Nottinghamshire1 163 60 West Midlands 2,829 3,331 Hereford and Worcester 31 100 Shropshire 488 247 Staffordshire1 44 329 Warwickshire 313 199 Birmingham 1,129 1,503 Coventry 258 271 Dudley 239 203 Sandwell 242 45 Solihull 41 222 Walsall 10 113 Wolverhampton 34 99 Eastern 1,132 1,691 Bedfordshire 134 234 Cambridgeshire2 0 104 Essex 252 414 Hertfordshire 628 821 Norfolk 53 57 Suffolk 65 61 London 5,383 6,907 Inner London 1,354 1,828 City of London 0 4— Camden 62 252 Greenwich 159 131 Hackney 140 179 Hammersmith and Fulham1 18 15 Islington 86 91 Kensington and Chelsea 0 23 Lambeth1 207 101 Lewisham 303 247 Southwark 162 118 Tower Hamlets 101 255 Wandsworth 105 231 Westminster 11 185 Outer London 4,029 5,079 Barking and Dagenham 134 91 Barnet 201 426 Bexley 391 88 Brent 62 138 Bromley 223 393 Croydon2 35 134 Ealing 185 154 Enfield 177 812 Haringey 173 248 Harrow 315 47 Havering 166 282 Hillingdon 213 133 Hounslow 70 358 Kingston upon Thames 58 149 Merton 169 41 Newham1 92 244 Redbridge 371 337 Richmond upon Thames 240 199 Sutton1 220 281 Waltham Forest 534 524 South-east 1,705 2,870 Berkshire 259 736 Buckinghamshire 73 501 East Sussex 100 158 Hampshire 179 148
align="center">Number of admission appeals heard in maintained primary and secondary schools by local education authority area England 1995–96 Number of appeals heard Local Education Authority Area Primary Secondary Isle of Wight 5 86 Kent 138 602 Oxfordshire 121 130 Surrey 719 392 West Sussex 111 117 South-west 1,573 1,574 Bath and NE Somerset3 101 175 City of Bristol3 294 175 North Somerset3 35 12 South Gloucestershire3 322 267 Cornwall 174 71 Isles of Scilly 0 0 Devon 117 173 Dorset 195 250 Gloucestershire 93 256 Somerset 203 63 Wiltshire 39 132 1 LEA maintained county and voluntary controlled and grant-maintained schools only. 2 Grant-maintained schools only. 3 From 1 April 1996. 4 No schools of this type.