Schools

Matthew Taylor
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many (a) rural and (b) urban (i) primary and (ii) secondary schools there were in (A) Cornwall, (B) the south west and (C) England in each year since 1999.

Jim Knight
The numbers of (a) urban and (b) rural (i) primary and (ii) secondary schools in (A) Cornwall, (B) the south west and (C) England as at February 2008 as shown in the following tables. To provide the information requested for previous years would require the manipulation of large volumes of data which could be undertaken only at a disproportionate cost.

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|2008              |Urban |Rural|Urban|Rural|Total |
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|(A) Cornwall      |59    |178  |16   |15   |268   |
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|                  |      |     |     |     |      |
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|(B) The south west|937   |980  |227  |94   |2,238 |
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|                  |      |     |     |     |      |
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|(C) England       |11,958|5,248|2,744|552  |19,502|
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