§ Mr. Don FosterTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, pursuant to his answer of 6 July 1999,Official Report, column 526, on nursery education, what is the number of three-year-olds in each of the relevant local education authorities that (a) currently have free full-time early education places and (b) will have 166W free full-time early education places when the promised additional places are provided, defining full-time as five or more sessions of early education per week. [92218]
§ Ms Hodge[holding answer 22 July 1999]: The Government are committed to almost doubling the proportion of three-year-olds with free nursery education. As the first stage in that process, we are creating 48,000 places in 1999–2000. The available information is shown in the following table.
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Numbers of free early years places provided for three-year-olds in the relevant local education authority areas in England Number of free, three-year-old places provided by LEAs in maintained nursery and primary schools1 Estimated additional places to be created in 1999–2000 Barking and Dagenham 1,329 262 Barnsley 1,406 885 Birmingham 7,420 6,059 Blackburn with Darwen 1,024 600 Blackpool 316 1,058 Bolton 2,104 748 Bradford 4,694 1,220 Brent 1,708 1,017 Camden 928 831 County Durham 3,786 301 Coventry 1,968 1,229 Doncaster 2,249 593 Ealing 2,686 410 Gateshead 1,313 625 Greenwich 1,889 821 Hackney 1,624 1,444 Halton 663 544 Hammersmith and Fulham 1,061 595 Haringey 1,949 704 Hartlepool 1,193 34 Hounslow 1,505 250 Islington 1,283 1,043 Kingston upon Hull 2,252 460 Knowsley 2,032 65 Lambeth 1,911 1,646 Leeds 6,231 1,247 Leicester 2,343 1,412 Lewisham 1,877 1,566 Liverpool 3,920 1,167 Manchester 4,229 563 Middlesbrough 1,840 57 Newcastle upon Tyne 1,789 762 Newham 3,189 1,618 North East Lincolnshire 1,010 629 North Tyneside 1,816 68 Nottingham 2,573 1,016 Oldham 1,594 1,086 Redcar and Cleveland 1,784 54 Rochdale 1,374 900 Rotherham 1,443 1,186 Salford 2,113 154 Sandwell 3,106 466 Sheffield 2,837 2,565 South Tyneside 1,476 73 Southwark 2,278 958 St. Helens 1,113 282 Stockton-on-Tees 2,001 66 Stoke-on-Trent 1,950 439 Sunderland 2,342 469 Tameside 1,620 593 Tower Hamlets 2,405 275 Wakefield 2,625 581 Walsall 2,951 102 Waltham Forest 1,281 1,562
Numbers of free early years places provided for three-year-olds in the relevant local education authority areas in England Number of free, three-year-old places provided by LEAs in maintained nursery and primary schools1 Estimated additional places to be created in 1999–2000 Wandsworth 1,584 1,601 Wirral 1,714 1,437 Wolverhampton 2,654 100 Total 123,355 48,498 1 Position as at January 1999