Class Sizes

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what percentage and how many primary school pupils were in classes of 36 or more in January in each local education authority and in total; and what was the actual and percentage change in numbers from January 1994 in each local education authority and in total. [38727]

The information requested is shown in the table.

Numbers and percentages of pupils in classes of 36 or more taught by one teacher in maintained primary schools in each local education authority area in England: 11994 and 1995 (provisional)
Position in January each year
	1994		1995 provisional		change
	Number	Percentage ¹	Number	Percentage ¹	Number	Percentage ²
Westminster	76	1.1	39	0.6	-3.7	-48.7
Barking	232	1.6	323	2.1	91	39.2
Barnet	115	0.6	112	0.5	-3	-2.6
Bexley	72	0.4	73	0.4	1	1.4
Brent	338	1.8	346	1.8	8	2.4
Bromley	146	0.7	291	1.3	145	99.3
Croydon	229	1.0	110	0.4	-119	-52.0
Ealing	145	0.7	78	0.4	-67	-46.2
Enfeild	36	0.2	36	0.2	0	0.0
Haringey	75	0.4	39	0.2	-36	-48.0
Harrow	72	0.5	72	0.4	0	0.0
Havering	146	0.8	37	0.2	-109	-74.7
Hillingdon	474	2.7	513	2.8	39	8.2
Hounslow	749	4.7	828	5.0	79	10.5
Kingston upon Thames	185	2.0	256	2.6	71	38.4
Merton	331	2.7	361	2.9	30	9.1
Newham	116	0.5	76	0.3	-4.0	-34.5
Redbridge	402	2.5	435	2.7	33	8.2
Richmond upon Thames	265	2.7	60	0.6	-205	-77.4
Sutton	144	1.2	114	0.9	-30	-20.8
Waltham Forest	112	0.6	0	0.0	-112	-100.0
Birmingham	1,434	1.5	1,187	1.2	-247	-17.2
Coventry	601	2.4	859	3.2	258	42.9
Dudley	973	4.0	1,429	5.9	456	46.9
Sandwell	1,312	4.8	913	3.3	-399	-30.4
Solihull	511	2.8	917	4.9	406	79.5
Walsall	511	2.3	553	2.4	42	8.2
Wolverhampton	381	1.8	626	2.9	245	64.3
Knowsley	644	3.8	951	5.2	207	47.7
Liverpool	960	2.0	1,253	2.7	293	30.5
St. Helens	851	5.9	1,011	6.9	160	18.8
Sefton	516	2.1	1,018	4.1	502	97.3
Wirral	518	1.8	627	2.1	109	21.0
Bolton	2,036	9.2	2.176	9.6	140	6.9
Bury	1,152	7.4	801	5.1	-35.1	-30.5
Manchester	1,173	2.9	1,185	2.8	12	1.0
Oldham	871	4.2	970	4.5	99	11.4
Rochdale	720	3.9	560	2.9	-160	-22.2
Salford	1,214	5.5	847	3.7	-367	-30.2
Stockport	1,366	5.6	896	3.6	-470	-34.4
Tameside	1,136	5.3	738	3.4	-398	-35.0
Trafford	1,422	7.7	1.234	6.5	-188	-13.2
Wigan	2,424	9.3	2,434	9.1	9	0.4
Barnsley	471	2.4	576	2.9	105	22.3
Doncaster	1,252	4.7	1,646	6.3	394	31.5
Rotherham	235	1.1	308	1.4	73	31.1
Sheffield	1,460	3.9	1,652	4.2	192	13.2
Bradford	567	1.8	1,207	3.7	640	112.9
Calderdale	326	1.9	108	0.6	-218	-66.9
Kirkless	981	3.1	1,824	5.7	843	85.9
Leeds	2,719	4.6	2,694	4.5	-25	-0.9
Wakefield	1,258	4.7	2,124	7.6	866	68.8
Gateshead	76	0.5	153	0.9	77	101.3
Newcastle upon Tyne	760	3.7	890	4.4	130	17.1
North Tyneside	497	3.3	463	3.1	-3.4	-6.8
South Tyneside	541	3.7	850	5.8	309	57.1
Sunderland	22	0,8	191	0.7	-3.1	-14.0
Isle of Scilly	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0
Avon	1,058	1.4	1,369	1.8	311	29.4
Bedfordshire	1,750	4.7	2,040	5.3	290	16.6
Berkshire	1,070	1.9	913	1.6	-157	-14.7
Buckinghamshire	2,402	4.2	3,614	6.1	1,212	50.5
Cambridgeshire	1,100	2.0	735	1.3	-365	-33.2
Cheshire	3,006	3.6	3,409	4.0	403	13.4
Cleveland	2,523	4.4	2,527	4.3	4	0.2
Cornwall	1,032	2.7	1,126	2.9	94	9.1
Cumbria	817	2.1	1,078	2.7	261	31.9
Derbyshire	4,369	5.8	5,888	7.6	1,519	34.8
Devon	1,847	2.4	1,815	2.3	-32	-1.7

Numbers and percentages of pupils in classes of 36 or more taught by one teacher in maintained primary schools in each local education authority area in England: 11994 and 1995 (provisional)
Position in January each year
	1994		1995 provisional		change
	Number	Percentage¹	Number	Percentage¹	Number	Percentage²
Dorset	580	1.4	980	2.3	400	69.0
Durham	1,283	2.5	1,240	2.4	-43	-3.4
East Sussex	435	0.9	470	1.0	35	8.0
Essex	768	0.6	1,209	1.0	441	57.4
Gloucestershire	479	1.1	551	1.3	72	15.0
Hampshire	3,484	2.7	2,013	1.6	-1471	-42.2
Hereford and Worcester	478	1.0	522	1.1	44	9.2
Hertfordshire	686	0.9	734	0.9	48	7.0
Humberside	4,110	5.3	4,838	6.1	728	17.7
Isle of Wight	190	2.7	11	1.6	-79	-41.6
Kent	697	0.6	1,007	0.8	310	44.5
Lancashire	6,008	5.1	6,542	5.4	534	8.9
Leicestershire	673	0.9	1,837	2.5	1,164	173.0
Lincolnshire	667	1.4	1,037	2.1	370	55.5
Norfolk	591	1.0	273	0.5	-318	-53.8
North Yorkshire	1,049	1.9	1,648	2.9	599	57.1
Northamptonshire	188	0.4	332	0.7	144	76.6
Northumberland	1,600	8.4	1,310	6.8	-290	-18.1
Nottinghamshire	2,822	3.4	3,729	4.5	907	32.1
Oxfordshire	608	1.6	482	1.2	-126	-20.7
Shropshire	555	1.7	668	1.9	113	204.4
Somerset	402	1.2	636	1.8	234	58.2
Staffordshire	6,500	7.5	5,226	5.9	-1,274	-19.6
Suffolk	222	0.5	254	0.6	32	14.4
Surrey	677	1.0	736	1.1	59	8.7
Warwickshire	756	1.8	1,074	2.5	318	42.1
West Sussex	475	0.9	660	1.2	185	38.9
Wiltshire	401	0.9	696	1.5	295	73.6
England	97,178	2.5	107,985	2.8	10,807	11.1
¹ Pupils in single teacher classes of 36 or more expressed as a percentage of all pupils in single teacher classes.
² Change in the number of pupils in classes of 36 or more pupils taught by one teacher between 1994 and 1995 expressed as a percentage of pupils in classes of 36 or more pupils taught by one teacher in 1994.
³ no pupils in classes of 36 or more taught by one teacher in 1994.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what was the average class size for primary schools in January in each local education authority and what was the actual and

Average size of single teacher classes in maintained primary schools in each local education authority area in England 1994 and 1995 (provisional)
Position in January each year
	1994	1995
	Average class size		Actual change 1994–95	Percentage change 1994–95
City	27.0	26.8	-0.3	-0.9
Camden	27.1	27.3	0.2	0.9
Greenwich	26.1	26.4	0.3	1.2
Hackney	25.7	26.1	0.5	1.8
Hammersmith	25.2	25.6	0.5	1.8
Islington	25.9	26.6	0.7	2.6
Kensington and Chelsea	24.9	25.1	0.2	0.8
Lambeth	24.2	24.6	0.5	2.0
Lewisham	26.0	25.4	-0.5	-2.0
Southwark	26.9	26.9	0.0	0.0
Tower Hamlets	26.4	26.7	0.3	1.1
Wandsworth	25.0	25.2	0.2	0.9
Westminster	24.0	25.3	1.4	5.6
Barking	26.1	26.7	0.6	2.4
Barnet	26.4	26.5	0.1	0.4
Bexley	27.5	28.6	1.1	4.0
Brent	27.0	26.9	0.0	-0.1
Bromley	28.1	28.4	0.4	1.3
Croydon	27.6	28.1	0.4	1.5
Ealing	26.6	26.6	0.0	0.1
Enfield	27.8	28.4	0.6	2.0

percentage change from January 1994 in each local education authority. [38725]

The information requested is shown in the table.

Average size of single teacher classes in maintained primary schools in each local education authority area in England 1994 and 1995 (provisional)
Position in January each year
	1994	1995
	Average class size		Actual change 1994–95	Percentage change 1994–95
Haringey	26.7	27.2	0.5	1.9
Harrow	26.8	27.1	0.3	1.0
Havering	27.5	27.4	-0.1	-0.5
Hillingdon	27.1	26.8	-0.3	-1.2
Hounslow	26.2	27.4	1.1	4.3
Kingston upon Thames	28.9	29.5	0.6	2.0
Merton	27.2	27.0	-0.2	-0.7
Newham	27.5	27.5	0.0	0.1
Redbridge	29.3	29.2	0.0	-0.1
Richmond upon Thames	25.7	26.1	0.4	1.5
Sutton	28.3	28.0	-0.3	-1.1
Waltham Forest	26.8	26.5	-0.3	-1.0
Birmingham	28.2	28.2	0.0	0.0
Coventry	27.1	27.8	0.7	2.6
Dudley	27.1	27.3	0.3	1.2
Sandwell	27.9	28.2	0.3	1.2
Solihull	27.3	27.6	0.3	1.1
Walsall	25.7	26.0	0.4	1.5
Wolverhampton	25.9	26.2	0.2	0.9
Knowsley	27.7	28.0	0.3	1.0
Liverpool	26.9	27.1	0.2	0.9
St. Helens	26.8	27.1	0.2	0.7
Sefton	27.2	27.6	0.4	1.6
Wirral	25.9	26.1	0.2	0.8
Bolton	28.1	28.7	0.6	2.3
Bury	27.5	27.8	0.3	1.1
Manchester	26.5	26.9	0.3	1.2
Oldham	28.6	28.5	0.0	-0.2
Rochdale	29.5	29.2	-0.3	-0.9
Salford	27.1	27.3	0.1	0.5
Stockport	27.7	27.5	-0.2	-0.7
Tameside	29.6	29.5	-0.1	-0.4
Trafford	29	29	0.0	-0.1
Wigan	27.9	28.0	0.1	0.5
Barnsley	27.4	27.5	0.1	0.3
Doncaster	27.5	28.1	0.6	2.1
Rotherham	25.1	25.8	0.7	2.8
Sheffield	26.3	26.8	0.5	2.0
Bradford	27.3	27.8	0.5	1.8
Calderdale	27.9	27.5	-0.4	-1.3
Kirklees	27.2	28.2	1.0	3.8
Leeds	27.9	28.2	0.3	1.0
Wakefield	27.5	27.9	0.3	1.2
Gateshead	25.8	26.0	0.1	0.6
Newcastle upon Tyne	27.3	27.6	0.2	0.8
North Tyneside	26.5	26.9	0.4	1.5
South Tyneside	26.3	26.3	0.1	0.2
Sunderland	25.6	25.4	-0.3	-1.1
Isles of Scilly	18.7	17.3	-1.3	-7.1
Avon	27.7	27.8	0.1	0.4
Bedfordshire	26.3	26.8	0.4	1.7
Berkshire	27.1	27	-0.1	-0.5
Buckinghamshire	27.2	27.3	0.2	0.7
Cambridgeshire	27.4	27.3	0.0	-0.2
Cheshire	27.4	27.3	-0.1	-0.4
Cleveland	26.8	26.9	0.1	0.4
Cornwall	26.8	27.0	0.2	0.6
Cumbria	25.7	26.2	0.5	2.0
Derbyshire	27.3	27.9	0.6	2.3
Devon	26.4	26.7	0.3	1.3
Dorset	27.5	27.6	0.1	0.4
Durham	27.5	27.7	0.2	0.8
East Sussex	27.4	27.5	0.2	0.6
Essex	26.9	26.9	0.0	0.1
Gloucestershire	26.4	26.7	0.3	1.1
Hampshire	27.4	27.7	0.3	1.1
Hereford and Worcester	25.1	25.5	0.5	1.8
Hertfordshire	26.4	26.5	0.0	0.1

Average size of single teacher classes in maintained primary schools in each local education authority area in England 1994 and 1995 (provisional)
Position in January each year
	1994	1995
	Average class size		Actual change 1994–95	Percentage change 1994–95
Humberside	27.5	27.7	0.2	0.6
Isle of Wight	26.0	26.3	0.3	1.1
Kent	27.6	27.7	0.1	0.3
Lancashire	27.7	27.9	0.2	0.6
Leicestershire	25.8	26.5	0.7	2.7
Lincolnshire	26.5	26.8	0.4	1.3
Norfolk	25.1	25.4	0.2	0.8
North Yorkshire	25.7	26.2	0.5	2.0
Northamptonshire	26.4	26.7	0.3	1.1
Northumberland	27.0	27.2	0.1	0.5
Nottinghamshire	27.0	27.4	0.4	1.5
Oxfordshire	25.6	25.9	0.3	1.3
Shropshire	26.4	26.6	0.1	0.5
Somerset	26.9	27.0	0.1	0.4
Staffordshire	27.7	27.6	-0.1	-0.5
Suffolk	24.8	24.9	0.0	0.1
Surrey	25.5	25.6	0.1	0.5
Warwickshire	26.5	26.9	0.4	1.5
West Sussex	26.2	26.5	0.4	1.4
Wiltshire	26.6	26.9	0.3	1.0
England	26.9	27.1	0.2	0.8

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what percentage and how many primary school pupils were in classes of 40 or more in January in each local education authority and in total; and what was

Numbers and percentages of pupils in classes of 40 or more taught by one teacher in maintained primary schools in each local education authority area in England: 1994 and 1995 (provisional)
Position in January each year
	1994		1995 (provisional)		Change
	Number	Percentage¹	Number	Percentage¹	Number	Percentage²
City	0>	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0
Camden	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0
Greenwich	0	0.0	50	0.3	50	³—
Hackney	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0
Hammersmith	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0
Islington	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0
Kensington and Chelsea	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0
Lambeth	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0
Lewisham	0	0.0	47	0.3	47	³—
Southwark	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0
Tower Hamlets	0	0.0	50	0.3	50	³—
Wandsworth	45	0.3	0	0.0	-45	-100.0
Westminster	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0
Barking	40	0.3	52	0.3	12	30.0
Barnet	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0
Bexley	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0
Brent	40	0.2	308	1.6	268	670.0
Bromley	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0
Croydon	80	0.3	0	0.0	-80	-100.0
Ealing	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0
Enfield	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0
Haringey	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0
Harrow	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0
Havering	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0
Hillingdon	323	1.8	326	1.8	3	0.9
Hounslow	120	0.8	41	0.2	-79	65.8
Kingston Upon Thames	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0
Merton	63	0.5	178	1.4	115	182.5
Newham	40	0.2	0	0.0	-40	-100.0
Redbridge	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0
Richmond Upon Thames	153	1.5	60	0.6	-93	-60.8
Sutton	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0

the actual and percentage change in numbers compared with January 1994 and in each local education authority and in total. [38726]

The information requested is shown in the table.

Numbers and percentages of pupils in classes of 40 or more taught by one teacher in maintained primary schools in each local education authority area in England: 1994 and 1995 (provisional)
Position in January each year
	1994		1995 (provisional)		Change
	Number	Percentage¹	Number	Percentage¹	Number	Percentage²
Waltham Forest	40	0.2	0	0	-40	-100
Birmingham	221	0.2	267	0.3	46	20.8
Coventry	120	0.5	115	0.4	-5	-4.2
Dudley	644	2.7	1,027	4.2	383	59.5
Sandwell	240	0.9	362	1.3	122	50.8
Solihull	0	0	40	0.2	40	³—
Walsall	0	0	42	0.2	42	³—
Wolverhampton	120	0.6	80	0.4	-40	-33.3
Knowsley	80	0.5	92	0.5	12	15
Liverpool	122	0.3	230	0.5	108	88.5
St. Helens	120	0.8	160	1.1	40	33.3
Sefton	41	0.2	40	0.2	-1	-2.4
Wirral	44	0.2	40	0.1	-4	-9.1
Bolton	628	2.8	394	1.7	-234	-37.3
Bury	128	0.8	0	0.0	-128	-100.0
Manchester	280	0.7	297	0.7	17	6.1
Oldham	252	1.2	308	1.4	56	22.2
Rochdale	208	1.1	87	0.4	-121	-58.2
Salford	167	0.8	254	1.1	87	52.1
Stockport	221	0.9	47	0.2	-174	-78.7
Tameside	80	0.4	40	0.2	-40	-50.0
Trafford	162	0.9	81	0.4	-81	-50.0
Wigan	85	0.3	87	0.3	2	2.4
Barnsley	175	0.9	233	1.2	58	33.1
Doncaster	480	1.8	601	2.3	121	25.2
Rotherham	160	0.7	200	0.9	40	25.0
Sheffield	80	0.2	244	0.6	164	205.0
Bradford	120	0.4	80	0.2	-40	-33.3
Calderdale	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0
Kirklees	320	1.0	491	1.5	171	53.4
Leeds	120	0.2	266	0.4	146	121.7
Wakefield	120	0.4	214	0.8	94	78.3
Gateshead	40	0.2	80	0.5	40	100.0
Newcastle Upon Tyne	80	0.4	174	0.9	94	117.5
North Tyneside	90	0.6	90	0.6	0	0.0
South Tyneside	52	0.4	103	0.7	51	98.1
Sunderland	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0
Isles of Scilly	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0
Avon	0	0.0	132	0.2	132	³—
Bedfordshire	169	0.5	829	2.1	660	390.5
Berkshire	40	0.1	165	0.3	125	312.5
Buckinghamshire	212	0.4	830	1.4	618	291.5
Cambridgeshire	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0
Cheshire	324	0.4	293	0.3	-31	-9.6
Cleveland	0	0.0	40	0.1	40	³—
Cornwall	40	0.1	87	0.2	47	117.5
Cumbria	85	0.2	230	0.6	145	170.6
Derbyshire	594	0.8	834	1.1	240	40.4
Devon	40	0.1	45	0.1	5	12.5
Dorset	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0
Durham	200	0.4	40	0.1	-160	-80.0
East Sussex	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0
Essex	0	0.0	230	0.2	230	³—
Gloucestershire	40	0.1	80	0.2	40	100.0
Hampshire	240	0.2	166	0.1	-74	-30.8
Hereford and Worcester	0	0.0	41	0.1	41	³—
Hertfordshire	166	0.2	82	0.1	-84	-50.6
Humberside	377	0.5	605	0.8	228	60.5
Isle of Wight	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0
Kent	80	0.1	285	0.2	205	256.3
Lancashire	324	0.3	284	0.2	-40	-12.3
Leicestershire	80	0.1	584	0.8	504	630.0
Lincolnshire	0	0.0	82	0.2	82	³—
Norfolk	186	0.3	55	0.1	-131	-70.4
North Yorkshire	244	0.4	90	0.2	-154	-63.1
Northamptonshire	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0
Northumberland	81	0.4	161	0.8	80	98.8
Nottinghamshire	1,724	2.1	1,943	2.3	219	12.7
Oxfordshire	85	0.2	98	0.3	13	15.3

Numbers and percentages of pupils in classes of 40 or more taught by one teacher in maintained primary schools in each local education authority area in England: 1994 and 1995 (provisional)
Position in January each year
	1994		1995 (provisional)		Change
	Number	Percentage¹	Number	Percentage¹	Number	Percentage²
Shropshire	40	0.1	120	0.3	80	200.0
Somerset	0	0.0	53	0.1	53	¹—
Staffordshire	1,540	1.8	1,137	1.3	-403	-26.2
Suffolk	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0
Surrey	162	0.2	249	0.4	87	53.7
Warwickshire	240	0.6	375	0.9	135	56.3
West Sussex	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0
Wiltshire	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0
England	14,057	0.4	18,223	0.5	4,166	29.6
¹ Pupils in single teacher classes of 40 or more expressed as a percentage of all pupils in single teacher classes.
² Change in the number of pupils in classes of 40 or more pupils taught by one teacher between 1994 and 1995 expressed as a percentage of pupils in classes of 40 or more pupils taught by one teacher in 1994.
³ No pupils in classes of 40 or more taught by one teacher in 1994.

Volume 264: debated on Monday 23 October 1995