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Mrs. Renée Short
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what is his latest assessment of the number of children in the 3 to 5 age group.
Mr. Armstrong
I understand from the Registrar General's Department that the following are the estimated numbers of children in England and Wales at the relevant ages at mid-1974: 3-year-olds, 772,000; 4-year-olds, 751,000; 5-year-olds, 780,000.