§ Mr. SandersTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skin; how many children were placed in residential care by each local authority in the last year for which figures arc available. [167135]
§ Margaret HodgeThe number of children in residential care in ea Ai local authority at 31 March 2003 is shown in the following table.
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Children looked after at 31 March 2003 in residential care1,2,3 Number England 8,400 North East Shire Counties Durham 55 Northumberland 50
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Children looked after at 31 March 2003 in residential care1,2,3 Number Unitary Authorities Darlington 20 Hartlepool 10 Middlesbrough 35 Redcar and Cleveland 20 Stockton on Tees 35 Metropolitan Districts Gateshead 30 Newcastle Upon Tyne 40 North Tyneside 35 South Tyneside 30 Sunderland 70 North West Shire Counties Cheshire 50 Cumbria 45 Lancashire 220 Unitary Authorities Blackburn and Darwen 30 Blackpool 30 Halton 20 Warrington 15 Metropolitan Districts Bolton 40 Bury 20 Knowsley 30 Liverpool 175 Manchester 185 Oldham 45 Rochdale 35 Salford 105 Sefton 100 St. Helens 45 Stockport 55 Tameside 45 Trafford 45 Wigan 55 Wirral 75 Yorkshire and The Humber Shire Counties North Yorkshire 45 Unitary Authorities East Riding Yorkshire 35 Kingston Upon Hull 85 North East Lincolnshire 30 North Lincolnshire 35 York 20 Metropolitan Districts Barnsley 45 Bradford 110 Calderdale 30 Doncaster 45 Kirklees 55 Leeds 165 Rotherham 35 Sheffield 100 Wakefield 50 East Midlands Shire Counties Derbyshire 65 Leicestershire 40 Lincolnshire 50 Northamptonshire 75 Nottinghamshire 35 Unitary Authorities Derby 50 Leicester 40 Nottingham 60 Rutland — 1341W
West Midlands Shire Counties Shropshire 30 Staffordshire 90 Warwickshire 35 Worcestershire 50 Unitary Authorities Herefordshire 15 Stoke-on-Trent 65 Telford and Wrekin 30 Metropolitan Districts Birmingham 295 Coventry 50 Dudley 45 Sandwell 50 Solihull 30 Walsall 60 Wolverhampton 35 East of England Shire Counties Bedfordshire 75 Cambridgeshire 45 Essex 185 Hertfordshire 125 Norfolk 135 Suffolk 85 Unitary Authorities Luton 35 Peterborough 25 Southend 30 Thurrock 30 London Inner London Camden 65 City of London — Greenwich 80 Hackney 60 Hammersmith and Fulham 60 Islington 115 Kensington and Chelsea 50 Lambeth 140 Lewisham 135 Southwark 90 Tower Hamlets 65 Wandsworth 40 Westminster 45 Outer London Barking and Dagenham 95 Barnet 60 Bexley 20 Brent 70 Bromley 70 Croydon 90 Ealing 80 Enfield 60 Haringey 120 Harrow 30 Havering 40 Hillingdon 65 Hounslow 45 Kingston Upon Thames 20 Merton 20 Newham 80 Redbridge 25 Richmond Upon Thames 25 Sutton 20 Waltham Forest 95 South East Shire Counties Buckinghamshire 40
Children looked after at 31 March 2003 in residential care1,2,3 Number East Sussex 45 Hampshire 125 Kent 120 Oxfordshire 65 Surrey 135 West Sussex 85 Unitary Authorities Bracknell Forest 15 B"right"on and Hove 35 Isle of Wight 10 Medway Towns 25 Milton Keynes 35 Portsmouth 35 Reading 25 Slough 20 Southampton 25 West Berkshire 20 Windsor and Maidenhead 15 Wokingham 10 South West Shire Counties Cornwall 65 Devon 75 Dorset 40 Gloucestershire 55 Isles of Scilly 0 Somerset 60 Wiltshire 40 Unitary Authorities Bath and North East Somerset 20 Bournemouth 30 Bristol 75 North Somerset 10 Plymouth 35 Poole 15 South Gloucestershire 20 Swindon 20 Torbay 25 1Residential care includes secure units, homes and hostels, residential schools, and other residential settings. 2Figures in this table exclude children looked after under an agreed series of short-term placements. 3Figures over 1,000 are rounded to the nearest 100. Figures between 1 and 5 have been suppressed. All other figures are rounded to the nearest 5. Source: Children Looked After by Local Authorities, Year Ending 31 March 2003.