Nursery Education

Mr. Ainger
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, if he will list (a) the numbers and (b) the percentage of three-year-olds and four-year-olds that received local authority nursery education or were in local education authority infant classes in each county in Wales on each of the last five years. [38362]

Mr. Richards
Figures for local education authority schools only are not readily available. The following tables show the figures for both LEA and grant maintained schools.Three and four-year-olds in maintained nursery and primary schools, by county.

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Figures shown are for January in each year and are for pupils estimated to be three or four years old at 31 December.