HC Deb 16 October 2002 vol 390 cc878-81W
Dr. Evan Harris

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many children under the age of five years are being taught in infant classes in primary education, broken down by local education authority. [74282]

Mr. Miliband

The available information for maintained primary schools is shown in the table along with, for completeness, figures for under 5's in maintained nursery schools and classes.

Number of Three and Four Year Olds1,2 in Maintained Nursery and Primary Schools January 2002 (Provisional)
Pupils in nursery schools and nursery classes Pupils in infant classes in primary schools3 All pupils under 5 in nursery and primary schools
YORKSHIRE AND THE HUMBER 48,330 35,763 84,093
Barnsley 3,010 796 3,806
Bradford 6,333 4,130 10,463
Calderdale 1,678 1,652 3,330
Doncaster 3,225 2,412 5,637
East Riding of Yorkshire 2,012 1,838 3,850
Kingston Upon Hull, City of 3,285 1,359 4,644
Kirklees 3,463 3,348 6,811
Leeds 7,224 5,532 12,756
North East Lincolnshire 1,700 949 2,649
North Lincolnshire 1,283 921 2,204
North Yorkshire 2,460 4,188 6,648
Rotherham 2,667 2,048 4,715
Sheffield 4,502 3,770 8,272
Wakefield 4,458 1,635 6,093
York 1,030 1,185 2,215
EAST MIDLANDS 30,966 27,738 58,704
Derby 2,708 1,709 4,417
Derbyshire 5,611 5,355 10,966
Leicester 3,898 1,750 5,648
Leicestershire 224 4,746 4,970
Lincolnshire 2,461 5,003 7,464
Northamptonshire 3,281 5,051 8,332
Nottingham 4,671 774 5,445
Nottinghamshire 8,009 3,126 11,135
Rutland 103 224 327
WEST MIDLANDS 42,930 42,478 85,408
Birmingham 10,047 9,236 19,283
Coventry 2,677 2,439 5,116
Dudley 2,959 2,481 5,440
Herefordshire 570 1,177 1,747
Sandwell 4,086 2,578 6,664
Shropshire 1,333 1,064 2,397
Solihull 2,127 1,737 3,864
Staffordshire 3,665 7,284 10,949
Stoke-on-Trent 2,492 1,883 4,375
Telford and Wrekin 1,527 665 2,192
Walsall 3,911 2,225 6,136
Warwickshire 2,054 3,774 5,828
Wolverhampton 3,411 1,934 5,345
Worcestershire 2,071 4,001 6,072
EAST OF ENGLAND 28,564 38,233 66,797
Bedfordshire 2,564 2,713 5,277
Cambridgeshire 1,715 4,112 5,827
Essex 3,770 8,569 12,339
Hertfordshire 10,198 8,523 18,721
Luton 1,631 1,527 3,158
Norfolk 2,703 5,563 8,266
Peterborough 427 1,437 1,864
Southend-on-Sea 769 1,283 2,052
Suffolk 3,746 3,548 7,294
Thurrock 1,041 958 1,999
LONDON 70,921 51,725 122,646
INNER LONDON 30,812 19,887 50,699
Camden 1,270 988 2,258
City of London
Hackney 2,254 1,571 3,825
Hammersmith and Fulham 1,762 540 2,302
Haringey 2,736 1,959 4,695
Islington 1,778 1,358 3,136
Kensington and Chelsea 891 611 1,502
Lambeth 2,635 1,718 4,353
Lewisham 2,698 1,894 4,592
Newham 4,771 2,779 7,550
Southwark 3,109 2,116 5,225
Tower Hamlets 3,209 1,958 5,167

Number of Three and Four Year Olds1,2 in Maintained Nursery and Primary Schools January 2002 (Provisional)
Pupils in nursery schools and nursery classes Pupils in infant classes in primary schools3 All pupils under 5 in nursery and primary schools
Wandsworth 2,208 1,587 3,795
Westminster 1,491 808 2,299
OUTER LONDON 40,109 31,838 71,947
Barking and Dagenham 2,150 1,635 3,785
Barnet 2,577 2,244 4,821
Bexley 1,925 1,822 3,747
Brent 2,480 1,962 4,442
Bromley 342 2,337 2,679
Croydon 2,902 2,646 5,548
Ealing 3,590 2,293 5,883
Enfield 1,928 2,427 4,355
Greenwich 3,273 1,078 4,351
Harrow 1,076 1,533 2,609
Havering 948 1,764 2,712
Hillingdon 3,383 2,002 5,385
Hounslow 2,205 1,708 3,913
Kingston upon Thames 1,311 989 2,300
Merton 2,037 1,234 3,271
Redbridge 2,491 1,940 4,431
Richmond upon Thames 840 1,121 1,961
Sutton 1,844 53 1,897
Waltham Forest 2,807 1,050 3,857
SOUTH EAST 23,843 52,900 76,743
Bracknell Forest 767 243 1,010
Brighton and Hove 1,127 1,577 2,704
Buckinghamshire 1,364 3,661 5,025
East Sussex 775 3,433 4,208
Hampshire 785 9,278 10,063
Isle of Wight 158 894 1,052
Kent 1,914 10,573 12,487
Medway 589 2,202 2,791
Milton Keynes 783 1,670 2,453
Oxfordshire 3,567 1,765 5,332
Portsmouth 611 1,379 1,990
Reading 1,759 156 1,915
Slough 1,740 736 2,476
Southampton 473 1,575 2,048
Surrey 3,568 7,312 10,880
West Berkshire 840 752 1,592
West Sussex 1,169 5,194 6,363
Windsor and Maidenhead 1,045 97 1,142
Wokingham 809 403 1,212
SOUTH WEST 12,451 35,675 48,126
Bath and North East Somerset 385 1,199 1,584
Bournemouth 350 1,019 1,369
Bristol, City of 3,553 2,787 6,340
Cornwall 1,652 3,637 5,289
Devon 1,899 4,628 6,527
Dorset 290 2,482 2,772
Gloucestershire 124 4,102 4,226
Isles of Scilly 0 15 15
North Somerset 262 1,334 1,596
Plymouth 984 1,837 2,821
Poole 131 925 1,056
Somerset 655 3,694 4,349
South Gloucestershire 473 2,144 2,617
Swindon 605 1,610 2,215
Torbay 661 857 1,518
Wiltshire 427 3,405 3,832
Notes:
1Headcount of children aged three and four at 31st December in the previous calendar year.
2Includes two year olds.
3Includes reception and other classes not designated as nursery classes
… Not available. Data not reported by City of London Local Education Authority.

Source:

Annual Schools Census