To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, if he will list (a) the numbers and (b) the percentage of three-year-olds and four-year-olds that received local authority nursery education or were in local education authority infant classes in each county in Wales on each of the last five years. [38362]
Figures for local education authority schools only are not readily available. The following tables show the figures for both LEA and grant maintained schools.Three and four-year-olds in maintained nursery and primary schools, by county.
Primary schools
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Clwyd
| Dyfed
| Gwent
| Gwynedd
| Mid Glamorgan
| Powys
| South Glamorgan
| West Glamorgan
| Wales
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1989–90
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| Number | 7,651 | 5,062 | 7,131 | 2,354 | 9,437 | 1,406 | 5,284 | 7,581 | 45,906 |
| Per cent. | 73.4 | 58.3 | 59.9 | 40.8 | 63.9 | 50.4 | 46.4 | 81.6 | 61.2 |
1990–91
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| Number | 8,093 | 5,210 | 7,246 | 2,079 | 9,427 | 1,457 | 5,449 | 7,562 | 46,523 |
| Per cent. | 77.0 | 60.3 | 59.9 | 35.4 | 62.9 | 51.3 | 47.0 | 81.3 | 61.3 |
1991–92
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| Number | 8,345 | 5,412 | 7,637 | 2,024 | 9,883 | 1,509 | 5,692 | 7,714 | 48,216 |
| Per cent. | 77.3 | 62.2 | 60.1 | 33.7 | 63.4 | 52.0 | 48.6 | 80.4 | 61.8 |
1992–93
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| Number | 8,376 | 5,258 | 7,941 | 2,680 | 9,931 | 1,563 | 6,124 | 7,668 | 49,541 |
| Per cent. | 79.2 | 61.5 | 62.7 | 44.5 | 63.3 | 54.2 | 52.4 | 81.3 | 63.9 |
1993–94
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| Number | 8,475 | 5,197 | 7,866 | 2,578 | 9,875 | 1,497 | 6,293 | 7,684 | 49,465 |
| Per cent. | 81.1 | 62.9 | 63.3 | 43.2 | 64.5 | 53.5 | 54.1 | 82.2 | 64.9 |
Figures shown are for January in each year and are for pupils estimated to be three or four years old at 31 December.