To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many five, six and seven-year-olds there are (a) in each local education authority and (b) nationally. [37150]
[holding answer 15 July 1996]: The latest information on the numbers of pupils in school in each local education authority area in England who were aged between five and seven years of age is shown in the following table.
| Pupils aged 5–7 years of age (1)(2) in local education authority area in England | |
| January 1995 | |
| Local education authority | Pupils |
| Corporation of London | 127 |
| Camden | 6,018 |
| Greenwich | 9,160 |
| Hackney | 8,170 |
| Hammersmith and Fulham | 4,419 |
| Islington | 6,606 |
| Kensington and Chelsea | 5,572 |
| Lambeth | 8,601 |
| Lewisham | 9,130 |
| Southwark | 9,815 |
| Tower Hamlets | 8,760 |
| Wandsworth | 8,605 |
| Westminster | 5,072 |
| Barking and Dagenham | 6,846 |
| Barnet | 11,376 |
| Bexley | 9,093 |
| Brent | 9,641 |
| Bromley | 11,282 |
| Croydon | 13,280 |
| Ealing | 11,514 |
| Enfield | 10,669 |
| Haringey | 8,623 |
| Harrow | 8,035 |
| Havering | 9,070 |
| Hillingdon | 9,676 |
| Hounslow | 8,032 |
| Kingston upon Thames | 5,060 |
| Merton | 6,509 |
| Newham | 11,213 |
| Redbridge | 9,295 |
| Richmond upon Thames | 6,210 |
| Sutton | 6,476 |
| Waltham Forest | 8,791 |
| Birmingham | 45,341 |
| Coventry | 12,801 |
| Dudley | 11,898 |
| Sandwell | 12,664 |
| Solihull | 8,552 |
| Walsall | 11,099 |
| Wolverhampton | 10,382 |
| Knowsley | 7,554 |
| Liverpool | 20,220 |
| St. Helens | 7,300 |
| Sefton | 11,589 |
| Wirral | 13,938 |
| Bolton | 11,323 |
| Bury | 7,358 |
Pupils aged 5–7 years of age (1)(2) in local education authority area in England
| |
January 1995
| |
Local education authority
| Pupils
|
| Manchester | 18,999 |
| Oldham | 10,020 |
| Rochdale | 9,278 |
| Salford | 9,928 |
| Stockport | 11,674 |
| Tameside | 9,515 |
| Trafford | 8,779 |
| Wigan | 12,284 |
| Barnsley | 8,680 |
| Doncaster | 12,454 |
| Rotherham | 10,421 |
| Sheffield | 19,243 |
| Bradford | 21,809 |
| Calderdale | 8,330 |
| Kirklees | 15,657 |
| Leeds | 28,340 |
| Wakefield | 13,154 |
| Gateshead | 7,545 |
| Newcastle upon Tyne | 10,333 |
| North Tyneside | 7,642 |
| South Tyneside | 6,330 |
| Sunderland | 12,381 |
| Isles of Scilly | 63 |
| Avon | 36,777 |
| Bedfordshire | 23,697 |
| Berkshire | 30,924 |
| Buckinghamshire | 27,074 |
| Cambridge | 26,654 |
| Cheshire | 38,923 |
| Cleveland | 24,624 |
| Cornwall | 17,641 |
| Cumbria | 17,932 |
| Derbyshire | 36,029 |
| Devon | 38,050 |
| Dorset | 22,743 |
| Durham | 22,886 |
| East Sussex | 25,100 |
| Essex | 60,963 |
| Gloucestershire | 21,148 |
| Hampshire | 63,188 |
| Hereford and Worcester | 26,592 |
| Hertfordshire | 40,358 |
| Humberside | 35,985 |
| Isle of Wight | 4,490 |
| Kent | 61,756 |
| Lancashire | 57,654 |
| Leicestershire | 36,577 |
| Lincolnshire | 22,699 |
| Norfolk | 27,148 |
| North Yorkshire | 26,504 |
| Northamptonshire | 25,429 |
| Northumberland | 11,389 |
| Nottinghamshire | 40,605 |
| Oxfordshire | 22,009 |
| Shropshire | 16,623 |
| Somerset | 18,053 |
| Staffordshire | 41,776 |
| Suffolk | 24,876 |
| Surrey | 38,875 |
| Warwickshire | 19,322 |
| West Sussex | 26,245 |
| Wiltshire | 23,782 |
| England | 1,918,724 |
1 Ages as at 31 August 1994. | |
2 Includes pupils in all maintained and non-maintained schools. | |