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Mr. Andrew F. Bennett
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what were the number of nursery class and nursery school places per 1,000 children aged three and four years in each London education authority, in the metropolitan and non-metropolitan authorities and in Greater London, respectively.
Mr. Dunn
In January 1985, the numbers of pupils in nursery schools and classes per 1,000 of the three and four-year-old population were as follows:
| Numbers | |
| Barking | 330 |
| Barnet | 310 |
| Numbers | |
| Bexley | 110 |
| Brent | 330 |
| Bromley | 20 |
| Croydon | 80 |
| Ealing | 340 |
| Enfield | 220 |
| Haringey | 440 |
| Harrow | 160 |
| Havering | 40 |
| Hillingdon | 430 |
| Hounslow | 660 |
| Kingston-upon-Thames | 300 |
| Merton | 410 |
| Newham | 600 |
| Redbridge | 80 |
| Richmond-upon-Thames | 150 |
| Sutton | 160 |
| Waltham Forest | 400 |
| Inner London | 370 |
| Birmingham | 290 |
| Coventry | 230 |
| Dudley | 280 |
| Sandwell | 390 |
| Solihull | 270 |
| Walsall | 550 |
| Wolverhampton | 560 |
| Knowsley | 320 |
| Liverpool | 450 |
| St. Helens | 230 |
| Sefton | 290 |
| Wirral | 170 |
| Bolton | 330 |
| Bury | 180 |
| Manchester | 520 |
| Oldham | 280 |
| Rochdale | 270 |
| Salford | 510 |
| Stockport | 130 |
| Tameside | 380 |
| Trafford | 120 |
| Wigan | 250 |
| Barnsley | 490 |
| Doncaster | 380 |
| Rotherham | 390 |
| Sheffield | 390 |
| Bradford | 290 |
| Calderdale | 270 |
| Kirklees | 390 |
| Leeds | 300 |
| Wakefield | 440 |
| Gateshead | 320 |
| Newcastle upon Tyne | 390 |
| North Tyneside | 490 |
| South Tyneside | 480 |
| Sunderland | 350 |
| Avon | 150 |
| Bedfordshire | 280 |
| Berkshire | 240 |
| Buckinghamshire | 110 |
| Cambridgeshire | 120 |
| Cheshire | 210 |
| Cleveland | 480 |
| Cornwall | 140 |
| Cumbria | 200 |
| Derbyshire | 220 |
| Devon | 80 |
| Dorset | 60 |
| Durham | 370 |
| East Sussex | 80 |
| Essex | 50 |
| Gloucestershire | — |
| Numbers | |
| Hampshire | 50 |
| Hereford and Worcester | 60 |
| Hertfordshire | 320 |
| Humberside | 300 |
| Isle of Wighi | 60 |
| Kent | 50 |
| Lancashire | 160 |
| Leicestershire | 220 |
| Lincolnshire | 80 |
| Norfolk | 50 |
| North Yorkshire | 170 |
| Northamptonshire | 150 |
| Northumberland | 210 |
| Nottinghamshire | 420 |
| Oxfordshire | 120 |
| Shropshire | 110 |
| Somerset | 10 |
| Stafordshire | 220 |
| Suffolk | 110 |
| Surrey | 120 |
| Warwickshire | 160 |
| West Sussex | 30 |
| Wiltshire | 10 |
| England | 220 |
Note: The figures are rounded to the nearest 10