HC Deb 04 February 2002 vol 379 cc713-4W
Mr. Bercow

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many(a) day nurseries, (b) playgroups, (c) child minders, (d) out of schools clubs and (e) holiday schemes have been provided in the constituency of Buckingham in each year since 1997. [27769]

Margaret Hodge

The information is not available in the form requested. The Department collects information on day nurseries and playgroups and pre-schools defined in terms of the full day or sessional care that they provide. It does not collect information on pre-schools separately from playgroups. The Department collects information in terms of local authorities and not constituencies.

As a result of the local government reorganisation of Buckinghamshire in April 1997, information for 1997 is not comparable with that for later years.

The available information for Buckinghamshire local authority is shown in the following table.

Numbers of day care providers 1 by type of provider: Buckinghamshire local authority area, 1998–2001
Position at 31 March each year 1998 1999 2000 2001
Day nurseries — 20 90 90
Playgroups and pre-schools — 70 200 200
Child minders 1,300 450 1,100 1,100
Out of school clubs — 20 20 20
Holiday schemes — 10 280 70

Numbers of day care places1 by type of provider: Buckinghamshire local authority area, 1998–2001
Position at 31 March each year 1998 1999 2000 2001
Day nurseries — 1,050 2,430 1,397
Playgroups and pre-schools 4,926 1,820 1,350 4,644
Child minders — 1,792 6,822 6,174
Out of school clubs — 546 210 417
Holiday schemes — 614 21,630 4,156
1 Figures have been rounded
2 Includes those schemes exempt from registration

Source:

The local authority provided the data

Figures for March 2001 for England and Government Office regions were in Statistical Bulletin 08/01 "Children's Day Care Facilities as at 31 March 2001" which is available at www.dfes.gov.uk/statistics/ and from the Library.