Nursery Education

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asked the Secretary of State for Wales what is the number of children in each local education authority and in Wales in full- or part-time nursery education; and if he will express each total in each authority area, and for Wales, per 100 children of nursery age.

The table below gives for each authority in Wales:

(a) the number of pupils aged under five in a nursery school or in a nursery class in a primary school who were receiving education either full-time or part-time in January 1974;

(b) the figures in (a) expressed per 100 children aged three and four;

(d) the figures in (c) expressed per 100

					(a)	(b)	(c)	(d)
Authority					Number of Pupils	Percentage	Number of Pupils	Percentage
Clwyd	…	…	…	…	817	6·9	4,003	33·6
Dyfed	…	…	…	…	610	7·0	3,593	41·3
Gwent	…	…	…	…	2,347	16·5	4,564	32·1
Gwynedd		…	…	…	2,702	40·9	583	8·8
Mid Glamorgan			…	…	5,578	31·8	4,532	25·9
Powys	…	…	…	…	521	19·3	1,039	38·5
South Glamorgan			…	…	1,585	13·2	2,873	23·8
West Glamorgan			…	…	2,370	22·1	3,136	29·3
Wales Total			…	…	16,530	19·6	24,323	28·8

Volume 885: debated on Monday 3 February 1975