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Mr. Straw
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will update the table in the answer to the hon. Member for Blackburn, of 29 June 1989, Official Report, columns 535-36, on school closures, to give information for the calendar year 1989, and the latest information available for 1990.
Mr. MacGregor
The information is in the following updated table:
Calendar year | Number of Proposals decided | Number of Places to be taken out of use by Proposals in column 2 | Number of Proposals in column 2 approved | Number of surplus places to be taken out of use as a result of approved proposals |
(1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) |
1983 | 366 | 104,174 | 330 | 85,606 |
1984 | 292 | 85,862 | 270 | 77,590 |
1985 | 205 | 101,097 | 185 | 88,218 |
1986 | 172 | 81,663 | 147 | 62,828 |
1987 | 159 | 55,116 | 134 | 45,326 |
1988 | 145 | 64,256 | 116 | 27,170 |
1989 | 140 | 59,527 | 114 | 41,831 |
11990 | 12 | 2,467 | 7 | 2,380 |
1 1 January to 28 February 1990. |