To ask the Secretary of State for Education if he will list for each local education authority the latest estimate of the number of surplus school places in (a) primary and (b) secondary schools.
The table shows the number of surplus places in each local authority in England during the academic year 1990–91, the latest available figures. The figures are derived from information provided by LEAs in response to a survey by the Department.
| Surplus places in LEA-maintained primary and secondary schools 1990–91 | ||
| Primary | Secondary | |
| Corporation of London | 21 | — |
| Camden | 972 | 1,148 |
| Greenwich | 2,718 | 3,260 |
| Hackney | 3,019 | 1,780 |
| Hammersmith | 2,981 | 3,251 |
| Islington | 2,958 | 1,715 |
| Kensington and Chelsea | 1,090 | 1,046 |
| Lambeth | 4,479 | 3,852 |
| Lewisham | 1,609 | 3,223 |
| South wark | 5,511 | 3,837 |
| Tower Hamlets | 2,864 | 1,051 |
| Wandsworth | 9,096 | 23,908 |
| Westminster | 891 | 868 |
| Barking | 1,368 | 717 |
| Barnet | 1,463 | 983 |
| Bexley | 2,914 | 3,436 |
| Brent | 6,585 | 4,480 |
| Bromley | 2,259 | 21,309 |
| Croydon | 3,389 | 3,149 |
| Ealing | 3,016 | 3,533 |
| Enfield | 765 | 3,976 |
Primary
| Secondary
| |
| Haringey | 1— | 1— |
| Harrow | 888 | 466 |
| Havering | 1,971 | 3,229 |
| Hillingdon | 3,754 | 3,693 |
| Hounslow | 1,226 | 2,598 |
| Kingston-upon-Thames | 485 | 1,117 |
| Merton | 1,639 | 2,544 |
| Newham | 4,587 | 3,899 |
| Redbridge | 796 | 695 |
| Richmond-upon-Thames | 1,845 | 643 |
| Sutton | 1,619 | 2513 |
| Waltham Forest | 1,445 | 2,706 |
| Birmingham | 8,711 | 17,171 |
| Coventry | 6,022 | 5,657 |
| Dudley | 2,551 | 5,134 |
| Sandwell | 328 | 7,722 |
| Solihull | 3,332 | 6,645 |
| Walsall | 3,823 | 4,667 |
| Wolverhampton | 6,116 | 5,740 |
| Knowsley | 4,004 | 3,925 |
| Liverpool | 19,481 | 11,545 |
| St. Helens | 1,886 | 3,621 |
| Sefton | 1,944 | 4,519 |
| Wirral | 1,953 | 6,580 |
| Bolton | 1,602 | 1,612 |
| Bury | -150 | 1,013 |
| Manchester | 7,617 | 13,350 |
| Oldham | 1,319 | 1,692 |
| Rochdale | 1,784 | 25,253 |
| Salford | 4,171 | 3,711 |
| Stockport | 3,357 | 2,732 |
| Tameside | 968 | 1,854 |
| Trafford | 1,878 | 2,955 |
| Wigan | 7,811 | 4,025 |
| Barnsley | 4,220 | 2,644 |
| Doncaster | 7,076 | 8,550 |
| Rotherham | 4,346 | 3,761 |
| Sheffield | 9,048 | 8,730 |
| Bradford | 6,370 | 8,331 |
| Calderdale | 3,324 | 2,891 |
| Kirklees | 3,291 | 6,222 |
| Leeds | 8,335 | 15,684 |
| Wakefield | 4,314 | 7,763 |
| Gateshead | 6,422 | 2,941 |
| Newcastle-upon-Tyne | 4,515 | 5,425 |
| North Tyneside | 3,802 | 4,942 |
| South Tyneside | 2,619 | 3,528 |
| Sunderland | 4,674 | 2,5663 |
| Isles of Scilly | 78 | 233 |
| Avon | 6,359 | 14,904 |
| Bedfordshire | 9,782 | 9,409 |
| Berkshire | 14,013 | 8,825 |
| Buckinghamshire | 11,252 | 5,564 |
| Cambridge | 9,401 | 2,642 |
| Cheshire | 17,045 | 11,149 |
| Cleveland | 10,391 | 11,298 |
| Cornwall | 744 | 3,209 |
| Cumbria | 5,674 | 9,673 |
| Derbyshire | 10,230 | 12,487 |
| Devon | 10,575 | 9,012 |
| Dorset | 1,165 | 5,941 |
| Durham | 11,516 | 13,626 |
| East Sussex | 7,955 | 6,350 |
| Essex | 22,611 | 24,319 |
| Gloucestershire | 5,506 | 5,756 |
| Hampshire | 24,719 | 13,601 |
| Hereford and Worcester | 9,296 | 9,570 |
| Hertfordshire | 20,503 | 15,153 |
| Humberside | 16,347 | 14,891 |
| Isle of Wight | 357 | 1,101 |
| Kent | 15,431 | 26,589 |
| Lancashire | 6,754 | 20,135 |
| Leicestershire | 7,204 | 16,644 |
| Lincolnshire | 7,236 | 5,440 |
| Norfolk | 10,842 | 7,682 |
Primary
| Secondary
| |
| North Yorkshire | 9,524 | 7,404 |
| Northamptonshire | 4,714 | 8,058 |
| Northumberland | 4,902 | 3,727 |
| Nottinghamshire | 17,253 | 26,198 |
| Oxfordshire | 10,004 | 9,589 |
| Shropshire | 5,936 | 5,718 |
| Somerset | 2,524 | 3,793 |
| Staffordshire | 24,485 | 7,783 |
| Suffolk | 7,902 | 8,015 |
| Surrey | 11,084 | 8,400 |
| Warwickshire | 8,673 | 7,277 |
| West Sussex | 6,940 | 7,634 |
| Wiltshire | 9,682 | 9,987 |
1 Not available. | ||
2 Figures for secondary schools in these LEAs are incomplete. | ||
3 Figures for secondary schools in these LEAs are calculated on a slightly different basis since directly comparable figures are not available. | ||