§ Charlotte AtkinsTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will list by local education authority the number of additional nursery school places created since May 1997. [100007]
§ Ms HodgeSince September 1998, all four-year-olds have been eligible for a free early education place. Currently around 587,000, or 95 per cent., of these places are taken up.
In addition, we are making available £390 million over three years to almost double the number of three-year-olds in England able to access a free early education place. These resources will fund 190,000 new places by March 412W 2002. From September 1999, £40 million of this new money has been allocated to the 57 local education authorities with the highest levels of social need, to create around 48,000 new, free places during 1999–2000. From April 2000, additional funding for three-year-olds will be distributed across all local education authorities, again prioritised by social need.
The table shows the number of places that we expect to be created across all authorities by 2000–01. We have yet to determine the allocation for 2001–02.
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LEA 1999–2001 Liverpool 1,167 Manchester 563 Birmingham 6,059 Newham 1,618 Sandwell 466 Hackney 1,444 Knowsley 65 Tower Hamlets 275 Southwark 958 Lambeth 1,646 Nottingham 1,016 Greenwich 821 Newcastle upon Tyne 762 Haringey 704 Wolverhampton 100 Bradford 1,220 Sunderland 469 Leicester 1,412 Middlesbrough 57 Kingston upon Hull 460 Lewisham 1,566 Islington 1,043 Walsall 102 Salford 154 Oldham 1,086 Rochdale 900 Sheffield 2,565 Barking and Dagenham 262 Brent 1,017 Coventry 1,229 Doncaster 593 Gateshead 625 Camden 831 Blackburn with Darwen 887 Waltham Forest 1,562 South Tyneside 73 Hammersmith and Fulham 595 Hartlepool 34 Halton 544 Ealing 410 Bolton 748 Barnsley 885 Leeds 1,247 Stoke-on-Trent 439 Wandsworth 1,601 Stockton-on-Tees 66 Redcar and Cleveland 54 St. Helens 725 Rotherham 1,186 Blackpool 1,058 Wirral 1,437 Tameside 593 North Tyneside 68 Durham 301 North East Lincolnshire 629 Wakefield 581 Hounslow 584 Westminster 918 Southampton 1,579 414W
LEA 1999–2001 Sefton 486 Derby 687 Kirklees 1,100 Kensington and Chelsea 695 Brighton and Hove 1,046 Bristol 821 Luton 1,179 Enfield 1,284 Telford and Wrekin 914 Wigan 1,339 Portsmouth 1,045 Calderdale 381 Plymouth 1,262 Croydon 884 Redbridge 913 Dudley 77 Slough 244 Isle of Wight 506 Torbay 327 Darlington 25 Cornwall 1,644 North Lincolnshire 493 Thurrock 547 Southend-on-Sea 590 Lancashire 1,871 Nottinghamshire 180 Reading 183 Northumberland 67 Bournemouth 435 Peterborough 651 Hillingdon 638 Bury 51 Trafford 54 Barnet 82 Merton 51 Medway 665 Derbyshire 176 Harrow 225 Warrington 50 Cumbria 112 Havering 78 Bexley 58 Richmond upon Thames 41 Lincolnshire 141 Swindon 122 Stockport 70 Bromley 341 Norfolk 176 City of London 1 Staffordshire 194 Herefordshire 41 Devon 150 Suffolk 563 Oxfordshire 234 Cambridgeshire 142 Cheshire 161 Kent 467 Dorset 282 Milton Keynes 61 Gloucestershire 735 Surrey 251 Bracknell Forest 89 Windsor and Maidenhead 34 Bedfordshire 98 Kingston upon Thames 35 East Sussex 110 Somerset 112 West Berkshire 37 Wiltshire 215 North Somerset 51 Solihull 46
LEA 1999–2001 Shropshire 63 North Yorkshire 106 Isles of Scilly 19 Warwickshire 119 East Riding of Yorkshire 80 Northamptonshire 164 Bath and North East Somerset 37 Essex 314 Leicestershire 349 Poole 34 Worcestershire 130 Sutton 46 South Gloucestershire 61 Wokingham 37 Rutland 8 York 42 Buckinghamshire 124 Hampshire 295 Hertfordshire 265 West Sussex 163 Total 83,636