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Maintained Schools

Volume 324: debated on Thursday 28 January 1999

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Mr. Jenkins

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will estimate, for each local authority, the total number of pupils attending maintained schools. [67654]

Ms Estelle Morris

[holding answer 26 January 1999]: The information requested is shown in the table.

Number (headcount) of pupils in maintained nursery, primary,

secondary and special schools 1—January 1998. By local

education authority area, by government office region in England
Headcount
England7,680,691
North East435,289
Hartlepool17,125
Middlesbrough26,042
Redcar and Cleveland26,767
Stockton-on-Tees33,556
Darlington16,468
Durham82,028
Northumberland52,493
Gateshead30,709
Newcastle-upon-Tyne40,731
North Tyneside32,177
South Tyneside26,625
Sunderland50,568

Number (headcount) of pupils in maintained nursery, primary,

secondary and special schools 1—January 1998. By local
education authority area, by government office region in England

Headcount

North West and Merseyside

1,153,328

North West

905,154
Cheshire161,746
Cumbria78,514
Bolton47,329
Bury29,621
Manchester70,669
Oldham42,135
Rochdale37,144
Salford37,030
Stockport44,360
Tameside38,775
Trafford36,505
Wigan51,417
Lancashire229,909

Merseyside

248,174
Knowsley30,125
Liverpool82,831
St. Helens30,509
Sefton48,461
Wirral56,248

Yorkshire and Humber

831,840
East Riding of Yorkshire49,248
City of Kingston-Upon-Hull44,214
North East Lincolnshire28,832
North Lincolnshire25,607
York24,723
North Yorkshire87,100
Barnsley35,512
Doncaster52,799
Rotherham46,229
Sheffield75,857
Bradford90,025
Calderdale35,022
Kirklees65,287
Leeds117,242
Wakefield54,143

East Midlands

663,962
Derby38,180
Derbyshire114,043
Leicester City49,825
Rutland4,777
Leicestershire92,002
Lincolnshire96,933
Northamptonshire103,135
Nottinghamshire165,067

West Midlands

887,535
Hereford and Worcester104,992
Shropshire65,679
Stoke40,181
Staffordshire134,034
Warwickshire76,063
Birmingham180,977
Coventry51,420
Dudley51,000
Sandwell52,843
Solihull37,063
Walsall50,182
Wolverhampton43,101

Eastern

821,450
Luton31,857
Bedfordshire63,340
Cambridgeshire104,928
Essex240,839
Hertfordshire170,473
Norfolk110,840
Suffolk99,173

Number (headcount) of pupils in maintained nursery, primary,

secondary and special schools 1—January 1998. By local
education authority area, by government office region in England

Headcount

London

1,031,805

Inner London

356,905
City of London204
Camden22,638
Hackney25,901
Hammersmith and Fulham16,485
Haringey32,624
Islington24,331
Kensington and Chelsea10,403
Lambeth27,595
Lewisham34,073
Newham46,261
Southwark33,815
Tower Hamlets36,630
Wandsworth28,183
Westminster17,762

Outer London

674,900
Barking and Dagenham28,534
Barnet47,250
Bexley38,714
Brent36,875
Bromley44,133
Croydon47,956
Ealing42,539
Enfield46,134
Greenwich36,618
Harrow28,587
Havering36,146
Hillingdon38,630
Hounslow35,388
Kingston-upon-Thames20,133
Merton24,274
Redbridge39,652
Richmond-upon-Thames20,089
Sutton28,101
Waltham Forest35,147

South East

1,146,419
Berkshire120,265
Milton Keynes34,502
Buckinghamshire74,460
Brighton and Hove30,168
East Sussex64,883
Portsmouth26,241
Southampton30,928
Hampshire174,064
Isle of Wight19,064
Kent248,843
Oxfordshire84,101
Surrey135,322
West Sussex103,578

South West

709,063
Bath and NE Somerset25,137
City of Bristol52,586
North Somerset27,057
South Gloucestershire38,834
Cornwall72,948
Isles of Scilly261
Devon154,172
Bournemouth21,201
Poole19,901
Dorset53,039
Gloucestershire83,496
Somerset68,671
Swindon29,190
Wiltshire62,570

1 Figures include Primary, Secondary and Special GM Schools