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Mr. Blunkett
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if she will list the number and percentage of pupils aged five, six and seven years in maintained infant school classes of 31 or more in each year since 1990 with figures which are available for 1996 showing the percentage change between 1995 and 1996 (a) by each local education authority in England, (b) by region and (c) in total. [40149]
Mr. Robin Squire
Information on the sizes of classes as taught by key stage was first collected centrally in January 1996. Provisional information for key stage 1 is shown in the following table:
| Number and percentages of pupils at key 1 in one teacher classes of size 31 or more in maintained primary schools in local education authority area and region in England: January 1996 (provisional) | ||
| Pupils | Percentage | |
| Corporation of London | 0 | 0.0 |
| Camden | 127 | 4.0 |
| Greenwich | 470 | 7.5 |
| Hackney | 413 | 8.0 |
| Hammersmith and Fulham | 313 | 11.0 |
| Islington | 443 | 8.1 |
| Kennington and Chelsea | 62 | 3.5 |
| Lambeth | 381 | 6.7 |
| Lewisham | 567 | 8.6 |
| Southwark | 707 | 9.3 |
| Tower Hamlets | 349 | 6.8 |
| Wandsworth | 1,118 | 18.9 |
| Westminster | 224 | 9.1 |
| Barking | 734 | 12.0 |
| Barnet | 730 | 8.5 |
| Bexley | 3,984 | 45.3 |
| Brent | 786 | 11.0 |
| Bromley | 5,121 | 49.0 |
| Croydon | 3,497 | 31.3 |
| Ealing | 2,499 | 26.3 |
| Enfield | 3,621 | 39.2 |
| Haringey | 566 | 8.2 |
| Harrow | 1,929 | 32.4 |
| Havering | 2,439 | 29.2 |
| Hillingdon | 1,378 | 19.6 |
| Hounslow | 2,354 | 35.8 |
| Kingston upon Thames | 3,430 | 82.4 |
| Merton | 1,958 | 44.7 |
| Newham | 734 | 7.7 |
| Redbridge | 3,307 | 48.5 |
| Richmond upon Thames | 1,414 | 31.3 |
| Sutton | 1.077 | 23.5 |
| Numbers and percentages of pupils at key stage 1 in one teacher classes of size 31 or more in maintained primary schools in each local education authority area and region in England: January 1996 (provisional) | ||
| Pupils | Percentage | |
| Waltham Forest | 1,020 | 13.6 |
| Birmingham | 10,500 | 25.7 |
| Coventry | 3,510 | 30.9 |
| Dudley | 2,928 | 29.9 |
| Sandwell | 4,303 | 37.8 |
| Solihull | 3,917 | 49.7 |
| Walsall | 2,392 | 26.0 |
| Wolverhampton | 3,176 | 35.5 |
| Knowsley | 1,594 | 22.7 |
| Liverpool | 4,465 | 23.9 |
| St. Helens | 2,179 | 34.5 |
| Sefton | 4,540 | 43.6 |
| Wirral | 2,342 | 19.4 |
| Bolton | 4,861 | 51.6 |
| Bury | 2,926 | 45.6 |
| Manchester | 3,033 | 19.8 |
| Oldham | 3,488 | 40.5 |
| Rochdale | 3,084 | 39.5 |
| Salford | 2,946 | 32.8 |
| Stockport | 3,197 | 29.7 |
| Tameside | 4,316 | 48.3 |
| Trafford | 3,151 | 41.8 |
| Wigan | 4,400 | 40.7 |
| Barnsley | 2,278 | 30 |
| Doncaster | 3,584 | 31.9 |
| Rotheham | 1,438 | 16.8 |
| Sheffield | 3,116 | 19.8 |
| Bradford | 5,397 | 31.6 |
| Calderdale | 2,461 | 35.3 |
| Kirklees | 4,374 | 35.2 |
| Leeds | 8,677 | 35.0 |
| Wakefield | 2,680 | 26.1 |
| Gateshead | 699 | 10.3 |
| Newcastle upon Tyne | 2,590 | 30.0 |
| North Tyneside | 2,248 | 33.9 |
| South Tyneside | 1,314 | 22.7 |
| Sunderland | 1,246 | 11.2 |
| Isles of Scilly | 0 | 0.0 |
| Avon | 10,067 | 31.6 |
| Bedfordshire | 5,785 | 31.9 |
| Berkshire | 4,908 | 22.4 |
| Buckinghamshire | 7,269 | 35.8 |
| Cambridgeshire | 5,299 | 22.2 |
| Cheshire | 10,142 | 28.5 |
| Cleveland | 2,979 | 13.4 |
| Cornwall | 4,399 | 27.6 |
| Cumbria | 4,476 | 28.8 |
| Derbyshire | 12,144 | 41.1 |
| Devon | 7.589 | 24.2 |
| Dorset | 8,266 | 43.5 |
| Durham | 5,910 | 28.3 |
| East Sussex | 8,927 | 43.0 |
| Essex | 9,946 | 19.3 |
| Gloucestershire | 5,083 | 27.2 |
| Hampshire | 17,282 | 30.8 |
| Hereford and Worcester | 4,435 | 21.1 |
| Hertfordshire | 8,404 | 26.0 |
| Humberside | 8,874 | 28.7 |
| Isle of Wight | 904 | 23.8 |
| Kent | 14,765 | 26.7 |
| Lancashire | 20,425 | 40.4 |
| Leicestershire | 6,071 | 20.2 |
| Lincolnshire | 4,092 | 20.2 |
| Norfolk | 4,096 | 19.1 |
| North Yorkshire | 4,613 | 20.1 |
| Northamptonshire | 4,780 | 21.0 |
| Northumberland | 4,013 | 40.9 |
| Nottinghamshire | 6,397 | 21.0 |
| Oxfordshire | 2,333 | 14.4 |
| Numbers and percentages of pupils at key stage 1 in one teacher classes of size 31 or more in maintained primary schools in each local education authority area and region in England: January 1996 (provisional) | ||
| Pupils | Percentage | |
| Shropshire | 3,638 | 27.6 |
| Somserset | 4,239 | 26.5 |
| Staffordshire | 12,408 | 33.2 |
| Suffolk | 3,009 | 15.6 |
| Surrey | 6,848 | 22.6 |
| Warwickshire | 7,062 | 42.9 |
| West Sussex | 3,963 | 19.2 |
| Wiltshire | 4,037 | 20.3 |
| By region | ||
| North | 25,475 | 23.7 |
| North-west | 81,089 | 34.5 |
| East Anglia | 12,404 | 19.2 |
| Yorkshire and Humberside | 47,492 | 28.2 |
| West Midlands | 58,269 | 31.1 |
| East Midlands | 33,484 | 25.1 |
| Greater London | 47,752 | 23.3 |
| Other South-east | 91,334 | 26.3 |
| South-west | 43,680 | 28.6 |
| England | 440,979 | 27.5 |
| 1 Number of key stage 1 pupils being taught in single teacher classes of 31 or more expressed as a percentage of all key stage 1 pupils in single teacher classes. | ||