HC Deb 31 March 2004 vol 419 cc1535-8W
Mr. Watson

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many school nurses there are, broken down by education authority. [164814]

Mr. Miliband

The following table gives the number of full-time equivalent number of matrons, nurses and other medical staff in maintained primary, secondary and special schools in England broken down by local education authority at January 2003, the latest information available.

Special schools in England Number
England 1,538
North East 28
Darlington 0
Durham 1
Gateshead 3
Hartlepool 0
Middlesbrough 4
Newcastle upon Tyne 0
Special schools in England Number
North Tyneside 5
Northumberland 3
Redcar and Cleveland 1
South Tyneside 5
Stockton-on-Tees 1
Sunderland 6
North West 187
Blackburn with Darwen 0
Blackpool 2
Bolton 8
Bury 9
Cheshire 16
Cumbria 10
Halton 3
Knowsley 2
Lancashire 14
Liverpool 6
Manchester 20
Oldham 55
Rochdale 2
Salford 0
Sefton 2
St. Helens 4
Stockport 3
Tameside 16
Trafford 3
Warrington 4
Wigan 2
Wirral 5
Yorkshire and The Humber 115
Barnsley 5
Bradford 9
Calderdale 4
Doncaster 9
East Riding of Yorkshire 9
Kingston Upon Hull, City of 3
Kirklees 6
Leeds 20
North East Lincolnshire 8
North Lincolnshire 4
North Yorkshire 11
Rotherham 6
Sheffield 5
Wakefield 12
York 4
East Midlands 84
Derby 11
Derbyshire 18
Leicester 22
Leicestershire 5
Lincolnshire 7
Northamptonshire 10
Nottingham 2
Nottinghamshire 9
Rutland 0
West Midlands 112
Birmingham 30
Coventry 3
Dudley 6
Herefordshire 0
Sandwell 2
Shropshire 15
Solihull 10
Staffordshire 4
Stoke-on-Trent 0
Telford and Wrekin 5
Walsall 3
Warwickshire 20
Wolverhampton 2
Worcestershire 13
Special schools in England Number
East of England 132
Bedfordshire 11
Cambridgeshire 12
Essex 31
Hertfordshire 48
Luton 13
Norfolk 8
Peterborough 1
Southend-on-Sea 4
Suffolk 4
Thurrock 1
London 375
Inner London 73
Camden 2
City of London 0
Hackney 2
Hammersmith and Fulham 2
Haringey 27
Islington 4
Kensington and Chelsea 0
Lambeth 4
Lewisham 7
Newham 6
Southwark 0
Tower Hamlets 0
Wandsworth 19
Westminster 1
Outer London 302
Barking and Dagenham 1
Barnet 16
Bexley 4
Brent 32
Bromley 10
Croydon 12
Baling 24
Enfield 34
Greenwich 19
Harrow 41
Havering 3
Hillingdon 57
Hounslow 26
Kingston upon Thames 0
Merton 3
Redbridge 5
Richmond upon Thames 5
Sutton 2
Waltham Forest 8
South East 427
Bracknell Forest 2
Brighton and Hove 4
Buckinghamshire 189
East Sussex 26
Hampshire 52
Isle of Wight 4
Kent 36
Medway 4
Milton Keynes 11
Oxfordshire 13
Portsmouth 6
Reading 7
Slough 6
Southampton 6
Surrey 20
West Berkshire 2
West Sussex 37
Windsor and Maidenhead 2
Wokingham 2
Special schools in England Number
South West 77
Bath and North East Somerset 2
Bournemouth 1
Bristol, City of 2
Cornwall 6
Devon 6
Dorset 4
Gloucestershire 13
Isles of Scilly 0
North Somerset 6
Plymouth 2
Poole 2
Somerset 16
South Gloucestershire 1
Swindon 6
Torbay 1
Wiltshire 8

Source: Annual Schools' Census.