§ Mrs. ShephardTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will list English local education authorities in order according to the numbers of failing schools each has, as identified by Ofsted inspectors. [29581]
§ Mr. Byers[holding answer 16 February 1998]: The position as of 12 February 1998 is given in the following table:
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LEA area Schools1 Barking and Dagenham 0 Barnet 0 Bath and NE Somerset 0 Bexley 0 Bournemouth 0 Bury 0 Corporation of London 0 Darlington 0 Derby City 0 Doncaster 0 Durham 0 Harrow 0 Hartlepool 0 Isles of Scilly 0 Kensington & Chelsea 0 NE Lincolnshire 0 North Tyneside 0 Poole 0 Redbridge 0 Redcar & Cleveland 0 Richmond upon Thames 0 Sefton 0 South Gloucestershire 0 Swindon 0 606W
LEA area Schools1 Wakefield 0 West Sussex 0 City of York 0 Bolton 1 Cheshire 1 Cornwall 1 East Riding of Yorks 1 Ealing 1 Gateshead 1 Hammersmith & Fulham 1 Kingston upon Thames 1 Knowsley 1 Merton 1 N Lincolnshire 1 Oldham 1 Portsmouth 1 Rochdale 1 Rotherham 1 Rutland 1 St. Helens 1 Trafford 1 Wigan 1 Wirral 1 Barnsley 2 Berkshire 2 Buckinghamshire 2 Dudley 2 Enfield 2 Havering 2 Hounslow 2 Isle of Wight 2 Luton 2 Middlesbrough 2 Newcastle 2 North Somerset 2 Solihull 2 Southampton 2 Stockton-on-Tees 2 Suffolk 2 Sunderland 2 Sutton 2 Tameside 2 Wiltshire 2 Brighton & Hove 3 Bromley 3 Camden 3 Dorset 3 East Sussex 3 Hillingdon 3 Kirklees 3 Leicestershire 3 Milton Keynes 3 Northumberland 3 Shropshire 3 Somerset 3 South Tyneside 3 Stockport 3 Warwickshire 3 Westminster 3 Brent 4 Calderdale 4 Cambridgeshire 4 Coventry 4 Gloucestershire 4 Hereford & Wore 4 Lincolnshire 4 North Yorkshire 4 Northamptonshire 4 Southwark 4 Tower Hamlets 4 Waltham Forest 4 Bedfordshire 5 Cumbria 5 Kingston upon Hull 5
LEA area Schools1 Lewisham 5 Salford 5 Staffordshire 5 Stoke-on-Trent 5 Walsall 5 Wandsworth 5 Bradford 6 Croydon 6 Greenwich 6 Hackney 6 Haringey 6 Islington 6 Wolverhampton 6 Bristol 7 Devon 7 Hertfordshire 7 Leeds 7 Newham 7 Surrey 7 Derbyshire 8 Hampshire 8 Leicester City 8 Oxfordshire 8 Lambeth 9 Manchester 9 Sandwell 9 Sheffield 9 Norfolk 10 Birmingham 11 Liverpool 11 Nottinghamshire 11 Kent 18 Essex 19 Lancashire 20 Total 453 1 The figures include grant maintained schools, independent special schools and schools which have been inspected but await the publication of the OFSTED report.