asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will publish a table showing for each local education authority and each year since 1981 the numbers of statements made under the Education Act 1981.
The information in the following table is based on returns submitted annually by local education authorities in England since the Education Act 1981 came fully into force on 1 April 1983. Figures from the returns made in January 1987 are not yet available.
Local Education Authority
| Assessments and placements during 19831
| Statements made for the first time during the calendar year 1984
| Statements made for the first time during the calendar year 1985
|
| Lincolnshire | 234 | 244 | 329 |
| Norfolk | 113 | 230 | 361 |
| North Yorkshire | 143 | 248 | 319 |
| Northamptonshire | 242 | 380 | 209 |
| Northumberland | 63 | 91 | 176 |
| Nottinghamshire | 193 | 266 | 264 |
| Oxfordshire | 146 | 120 | 112 |
| Shropshire | 126 | 76 | 185 |
| Sandwell | 111 | 167 | 168 |
| Solihull | 55 | 88 | 47 |
| Walsall | 50 | 808 | 91 |
| Wolverhampton | 56 | 76 | 123 |
| Knowsley | 189 | 226 | 112 |
| Liverpool | 190 | 141 | 184 |
| St. Helens | 65 | 65 | 107 |
| Sefton | 77 | 63 | 126 |
| Wirral | 214 | 150 | 287 |
| Bolton | 37 | 70 | 50 |
| Bury | 55 | 97 | 94 |
| Manchester | 78 | 244 | 68 |
| Oldham | 84 | 97 | 96 |
| Rochdale | 125 | 605 | 146 |
| Salford | 123 | 102 | 83 |
| Stockport | 60 | 106 | 145 |
| Tameside | 71 | 89 | 91 |
| Trafford | 63 | 237 | 173 |
| Wigan | 151 | 86 | 71 |
| Barnsley | 12 | 74 | 60 |
| Doncaster | 173 | 14 | 128 |
| Rotherham | 98 | 164 | 170 |
| Sheffield | 166 | 164 | 148 |
| Bradford | 46 | 83 | 146 |
| Calderdale | 44 | 53 | 29 |
| Kirklees | 114 | 80 | 199 |
| Leeds | 251 | 942 | 672 |
| Wakefield | 112 | 126 | 99 |
| Gateshead | 31 | 68 | 75 |
| Newcastle upon Tyne | 73 | 101 | 102 |
| North Tyneside | 48 | 94 | 90 |
| South Tyneside | 31 | 49 | 104 |
| Sunderland | 103 | 554 | 110 |
| Isles of Scilly | 1 | — | — |
| Avon | 559 | 503 | 359 |
| Bedfordshire | 97 | 155 | 100 |
| Berkshire | 149 | 360 | 258 |
| Buckinghamshire | 273 | 350 | 418 |
| Cambridgeshire | 178 | 227 | 245 |
| Cheshire | 379 | 380 | 587 |
| Cleveland | 153 | 360 | 283 |
| Cornwall | 39 | 958 | 259 |
| Cumbria | 211 | 816 | 75 |
| Derbyshire | 252 | 385 | 558 |
| Devon | 323 | 410 | 497 |
| Dorset | 156 | 271 | 346 |
| Durham | 149 | 149 | 252 |
| East Sussex | 204 | 167 | 246 |
| Essex | 1,257 | 733 | 930 |
| Gloucestershire | 180 | — | 224 |
| Somerset | 138 | 103 | 180 |
| Staffordshire | 262 | 64 | 601 |
| Suffolk | 141 | 280 | 313 |
| Surrey | 580 | 417 | 579 |
| Warwickshire | 155 | 1,007 | 272 |
| West Sussex | 67 | 235 | 223 |
| Wiltshire | 268 | 310 | 381 |
| England | 16,964 | 28,227 | 22,098 |
1 1983 was a transitional year. The figures in this column include pupils newly assessed under the Education Act 1944 as needing special educational treatment, plus those assessed under the 1981 Education Act as having special educational needs. | |||