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Mr. Atkins: Her Majesty's inspectorate of pollution has made no measurements of the uncombusted waste materials from the cement kilns, but tests carried out by the company have confirmed a thermal destruction efficiency of almost 100 per cent.
Mr. Nigel Evans: To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if the conditions for the trial burning of hazardous wastes apply equally to all cement kilns at which such waste is being burnt.
Mr. Atkins: All trials authorised after the protocol of June 1994 have to comply with the same requirements.
Mr. Nigel Evans: To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what conclusions Her Majesty's inspectorate of pollution has reached on whether there is a risk to public health or the environment associated with the emission of uncombusted waste materials as a result of a trip on the operation of a cement kiln when it is burning hazardous waste; and what mechanism exists for measuring the products of incomplete combustion on such occasions.
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Mr. Atkins: Her Majesty's inspectorate of pollution is satisfied that there is no risk to public health or the environment associated with uncombusted waste materials as a result of any process trips. Whenever a trip occurs, the supply of Cemfuel to the kiln is automatically stopped and not restarted until normal operating conditions have resumed. The cement materials in the kiln remain hot for several hours, and this ensures the destruction of any remaining waste.
Mr. Nigel Evans: To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment on how many occasions the plume from any kiln at Ribblesdale has grounded in the last 12 months; how many times operations have been suspended as a result of inadequate emission velocity; and how many occasions members of the public have complained to Her Majesty's inspectorate of pollution about plume grounding.
Mr. Atkins: Her Majesty's inspectorate of pollution has no records of the number of times the plumes from the chimneys at Ribblesdale works have grounded in the last 12 months. Operations have never been suspended as a result of inadequate emission velocity. There have been around 50 complaints about plume grounding by members of the public in the last 12 months, although not all these have been confirmed.
Mr. Nigel Evans: To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment how many site visits have been made to Castle Cement's works at Ribblesdale which have been (a) announced and (b) unannounced.
Mr. Atkins: There have been more than 30 visits to the Castle Cement Ribblesdale site in the last 12 months. Of these, four were unannounced.
Repossessions
Mr. Redmond: To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment how many repossessions there have been in each year since 1989; and what assessment he has made of the proportion of those repossessed by the United Kingdom subsidiaries of United States companies.
Mr. Robert B. Jones: The number of properties taken into possession by mortgage lenders in the United Kingdom in each year since 1989 is as follows:
|Per cent of
Year |Number |total mortgages
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1989 |15,810 |0.17
1990 |43,890 |0.47
1991 |75,540 |0.77
1992 |68,540 |0.70
1993 |58,540 |0.58
1994 (first half) |25,020 |0.24
The Department does not have access to information that shows the number of properties taken into possession by individual lenders.
Housing Revenue Account
Mr. John Greenway: To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment when he proposes to issue the housing revenue account subsidy determinations for 1995 96.
Mr. Curry: I have decided to confirm the proposals for guideline rents and management and maintenance
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allowances, which were set out in my answer to my hon. Friend the Member for Vale of Glamorgan (Mr. Sweeney) on 24 November, Official Report , columns 250-51 . I have also decided to confirm the other proposals, subject to some revisions in the light of the responses received. The determinations will be issued later this week. Copies will be placed in the Library.Local Authorities (Companies)
Sir Fergus Montgomery: To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what are his proposals for local authority participation in companies; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Curry: It is our intention that where authorities participate in companies led by the private sector, there should be few controls other than those applicable generally under the Companies Act. In other cases, our intention is that local authorities' interests in companies should be subject to special capital finance and propriety controls.
We have today issued for consultation to the local authority associations and to local authorities a draft of an order which my right hon. Friends the Secretaries of State for the Environment and for Wales propose to make under the Local Government and Housing Act 1989, and which would give effect to these intentions from the financial year 1995 96. We have asked for all comments on the draft order to be submitted by 31 January 1995.
I have arranged for copies of the draft order, together with an explanatory guide, to be placed in the Library of the House.
Environment Agency Advisory Committee
Mr. Patrick Thompson: To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if, following his announcement of 18 November, Official Report, column 309, he will announce the member of the Environment Agency Advisory Committee who has been nominated by the Secretary of State for Wales.
Mr. Gummer: I have invited Professor Ron Edwards, currently a member of the board of the National Rivers Authority, to become a member of the Environment Agency Advisory Committee. Professor Edwards was recommended to me by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Wales.
Wildlife
Mr. David Nicholson: To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what progress he has made in implementing the changes to controls on wildlife following his announcement of 20 July.
Sir Paul Beresford: Good progress is being made in implementing the changes my hon. Friend the Minister for the Environment and Countryside announced on 20 July, Official Report , columns 319 21 .
We have today issued eight general licences to allow the sale of specimens of certain cockatoos, macaws, tortoises, owls and wildfowl, and the competitive showing of certain captive-bred birds, subject to conditions, without the need for an individual licence from the Department; and a general licence allowing the sale of the common toad, common frog, smooth newt and palmate newt, subject to certain conditions.
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These licences will take effect from 1 January.We are now imposing tighter conditions on a greater number of individual import permits to ensure that the specimens concerned are not used for any other purpose than that for which they were imported. The Department's wildlife inspectorate will be stepping up inspections to ensure that importers comply with these conditions. We have also increased the scrutiny of advertisements offering endangered species for sale to ensure that the transactions comply with the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species and national legislation.
We have consulted a wide range of interested individuals and organisations about the proposal to abolish the registered sellers of dead birds scheme. Having taken into account all the responses received, we have decided to proceed to abolish the scheme and to introduce general licences.
We have established a working group to review the enforcement of wildlife controls. Its terms of reference are:
"To consider the scope for improvements in the enforcement of wildlife species controls in Great Britain with particular reference to the roles of the Police, HM Customs and Excise, the DOE Wildlife Inspectorate and the NGOs, and to report to the Department of the Environment by the end of July 1995".
The first meeting was held on 21 October and was attended by the police, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food investigations branch, HM Custom and Excise, the Crown Prosecution Service, the Joint Nature Conservation Committee, English Nature, the Countryside Council for Wales, Scottish Natural Heritage, TRAFFIC, RSPB, RSPCA and the National Council for Aviculture.
I intend to make a further announcement early next year about the increased use of DNA tests to enforce wildlife controls.
Countryside Stewardship Scheme
Mr. Tipping: To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment (1) if he will set out the criteria used in each year since 1991 in deciding which areas of land were suitable to receive additional access payments under the countryside stewardship scheme; (2) how much was paid to landowners and occupiers as the flat-rate payment for providing new public access under the countryside stewardship scheme in each year since 1991;
(3) how much was spent on capital payments for providing public access on or to countryside stewardship scheme access sites in each year since 1991; and what was the number of sites for which such capital payments were made in each year.
Mr. Atkins [holding answer 16 December 1994]: I will write to the hon. Member.
Lettsom Gardens, Camberwell
Mr. Alex Carlile: To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will make it his policy to ensure that Lettsom gardens, Camberwell, remains a green area free from development and run by local residents; and if he will make a statement.
Sir Paul Beresford [holding answer 19 December 1994]: I shall write to the hon. and learned Member.
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Homelessness
Mr. Alan W. Williams: To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what is the monthly cost of the provision of a single homeless persons unit mortgaged over 25 years at current mortgage interest rates; and what is the current average monthly mortgage payment.
Mr. Robert B. Jones [holding answer 19 December 1994]: As capital funding has been available from the Housing Corporation for the full cost of developing single homeless persons units, most units will have been developed without the need for borrowing. The corporation does not therefore have information available on mortgage costs.
Mr. Alan W. Williams: To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what has been the cumulative total of running cost provisions over the previous five years on single homeless units; and what is the average annual expenditure per unit.
Mr. Robert B. Jones [holding answer 19 December 1994]: The cumulative total provision by the Housing Corporation for the cost of housing management in single homeless units over the last five years has been £174 million at current prices. The average annual expenditure by housing associations on grant-aided schemes, taking account of income from all sources, is £6,240 per bedspace.
Mr. Alan W. Williams: To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what has been the cumulative total of capital expenditure over the previous five years on the provision of single homeless persons units; and what is the average cost of providing a unit.
Mr. Robert B. Jones [holding answer 19 December 1994]: At current prices, the cumulative total capital expenditure by the Housing Corporation on the provision of single homeless persons units over the five years to 1993 94 amounts to £139.5 million. The average capital cost of providing a bedspace in a shared unit over that period was £31,000.
Birds of Prey
Mr. Morley: To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list, by type, the number of birds of prey reported stolen in (a) 1992, (b) 1993 and (c) each month of 1994.
Sir Paul Beresford [holding answer 19 December 1994]: As thefts of birds of prey are not reportable offences, comprehensive official statistics are not kept. However, the information available to my Department indicates that the minimum figures for thefts of birds of prey from the wild in Great Britain were as follows:
1992: 47
1993: 72
Figures for 1994 are not yet available.
My Department does not keep records of birds in captivity which are subsequently stolen.
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EDUCATION
Assisted Places Scheme
Mrs. Helen Jackson: To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many children who have received assistance through the assisted places scheme are from households in the bottom 10th disposable income levels, according to Department of Social Security statistics.
Mr. Robin Squire: The information is not available in the form requested. Parental income for the purposes of the assisted places scheme is assessed on total family income from all sources, gross of all allowances. Non-taxable social security benefits are excluded and no adjustments for the inputed value of free school meals are made as is the case with the DSS statistics.
For the school year 1993 94, the latest for which information is available, more than 11,800--40 per cent.--assisted pupils were entitled to a completely free place because their families' income fell below the threshold of £9,225 per annum. Over 80 per cent. of parents in the scheme have earnings below the equivalent national average household income.
Funding Agency for Schools
Mr. Kilfoyle: To ask the Secretary of State for Education if she will list the number of visits each regional representative of the Funding Agency for Schools has made to local education authorities within their designated areas.
Mr. Robin Squire: This matter is the responsibility of the Funding Agency for Schools. I have asked the chairman of the funding agency to write to the hon. Member.
Mr. Kilfoyle: To ask the Secretary of State for Education if she will instruct the Funding Agency for Schools to open its meetings to the public.
Mr. Robin Squire: No. It is for the funding agency to regulate its own proceedings. I have asked the chairman of the funding agency to write to the hon. Member.
Feeder Primary Schools
Mr. Kilfoyle: To ask the Secretary of State for Education if she will make a statement on the inclusion by secondary schools of named feeder primary schools within their admissions criteria.
Mr. Robin Squire: Circular 6/93 "Admissions to Maintained Schools" advises that priority may be given to children attending certain named primary schools, but that the choice of schools should be determined on objective grounds.
Public Appointments
Mr. Kirkwood: To ask the Secretary of State for Education what information is sought at interview with candidates for appointment to paid or unpaid posts for which she is responsible as indicated in the answer to the hon. Member for Truro (Mr. Taylor) by the hon. Member for Daventry (Mr. Boswell) on 28 March 1994, Official Report , columns 519 20 .
Mr. Boswell: Ministers interview candidates to gain a fuller picture of their aptitude and experience in order to ascertain their suitability for the post and their ability to
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make an effective contribution to the work of the relevant public body.Grant-maintained Schools
Ms Estelle Morris: To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many (a) primary and (b) secondary schools' governing bodies were placed under a duty to consider during the school year 1993 94 whether to conduct a parental ballot on grant-maintained status and, in each case, how many ballots were held during 1993 94; and how many resulted in majorities in favour of grant-maintained status.
Mr. Robin Squire: The governing bodies of some 18,300 primary and 2,950 secondary schools in England were required during the 1993 94 school year to consider whether to hold a parental ballot on grant-maintained status.
During that year, 167 primary and 104 secondary schools held ballots. Of these, 107 ballots at primary schools and 52 at secondary schools resulted in a vote in favour of grant-maintained status.
Ms Estelle Morris: To ask the Secretary of State for Education which grant-maintained schools have had their admissions policies reviewed by her Department as a result of applying for (a) a change of character and (b) a change of admissions policy not amounting to a change of character; and what action has been taken.
Mr. Robin Squire: My right hon. Friend does not have a general power to require an admissions authority--a governing body of grant-maintained or voluntary-aided school, or a local education authority--to change its arrangements. When considering requests from grant-maintained schools for approval to vary their admission arrangements, officials may sometimes draw attention to aspects of the existing arrangements which appear to fall short of the guidance of best practice contained in circular 6/93. The Department does not keep a detailed record of such exchanges.
Mr. Bayley: To ask the Secretary of State for Education what is the total cost for the central administration of grant-maintained schools for each year since the GMS system was implemented; and what is the central administrative cost per pupil being educated within a grant-maintained school for each year since the GMS system was implemented.
Mr. Robin Squire: This information is held by the Funding Agency for Schools. I have asked the chairman of the funding agency to write to the hon. Member.
Mr. Rendel: To ask the Secretary of State for Education what was the total budget for grant-maintained schools within Berkshire for 1994 95.
Mr. Robin Squire: The determination of grant for GM schools is now a matter for the Funding Agency for Schools. I have asked the chairman of the funding agency to write to the hon. Member.
Mrs. Maddock: To ask the Secretary of State for Education what was the total budget for grant-maintained schools within Dorset for 1994 95.
Mr. Robin Squire: The determination of grant for GM schools is now a matter for the Funding Agency for Schools. I have asked the chairman of the funding agency to write to the hon. Member.
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Capital Allocations
Mr. Jacques Arnold: To ask the Secretary of State for Education if she will make a statement on capital allocations for local education authority maintained schools for 1995 96.
Mr. Robin Squire: Local education authorities have today been informed of their annual capital guidelines--ACGs--for schools which, together with supplementary credit approvals, will total £426 million in 1995 96. They have also been informed of their allocations for spending by the governors of voluntary-aided and special agreement schools in their areas--the overall grant to be made available in 1995 96 will be £96 million.
Annual capital guidelines do not represent the full total of funds available to local education authorities for capital expenditure. Authorities are also able to spend additional sums from capital receipts and from their revenue budgets if they so choose. Local authorities have received considerable resources in the last few years for building work at schools. The substantial sum available in 1995 96 is a 5.7 per cent. increase on the £403 million available in the current year and should enable local authorities to continue to make significant progress in improving the building stock. In distributing annual capital guidelines, we have again given priority to the second and third year expenditure on work covered by ACGs in previous years; projects to provide new school places in areas of population growth--"Basic Need"; and projects to remove surplus places. For 1995 96, we are providing historically high amounts to support Basic Need. Of the total of £96 million grant for voluntary-aided schools, £38 million has been set aside for repairs. The remainder is to be provided for capital work with a small element for debt repayment; £15 million of this will support new work to provide for new school places, removal of surplus capacity and a range of improvement and replacement projects. Thirty- seven major projects have been authorised to start and a further 29 to proceed to initial design work. My right hon. Friend and I look to local education authorities and school governors to ensure that the grant is fully effectively utilised.
A total of £45 million of the ACGs total will be allocated in the form of supplementary credit approvals--SCAs--to LEAs during the course of the year.
Details of individual LEAs' ACGs and grant allocations have been placed in the Library.
Further Education Funding Council
Mrs. Maddock: To ask the Secretary of State for Education what proportion of the Further Education Funding Council's budget for 1994 95 supports institutions in Dorset.
Mr. Boswell: The total amount of recurrent funding allocated by the Further Education Funding Council for the academic year 1994 95 is £2,610.8 million, of which £26.2 million was allocated to institutions in Dorset.
Mr. Rendel: To ask the Secretary of State for Education what proportion of the Further Education Funding Council's budget for 1994 95 supports institutions in Berkshire.
Mr. Boswell: The total amount of recurrent funding allocated by the Further Education Funding Council for
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the academic year 1994 95 is £2,610.8 million, of which £33.1 million was allocated to institutions in Berkshire.Education (Schools) Act 1992
Mr. Blunkett: To ask the Secretary of State for Education when she expects to lay before Parliament the 1993 94 annual report of Her Majesty's chief inspector of schools under section 4(a) of the Education (Schools) Act 1992.
Mr. Forth: My right hon. Friend expects to be able to lay HMCI's annual report before Parliament after the Christmas recess.
Higher Education Funding Council
Mr. Blunkett: To ask the Secretary of State for Education what adjustment is proposed to the total standard spending to take account of the transfer of funding for fee income discretionary awards from local authorities to the Higher Education Funding Council in the 1995 96 financial year, and if she will make a statement.
Mr. Boswell: We propose to transfer £2.7 million from local authority finance to the Higher Education Funding Council for England-- HEFCE--in 1995 96. This reflects the 45 per cent. reduction in the maximum tuition fee reimbursed through mandatory awards announced a year ago. This will lead to a reduction in local authorities' discretionary awards expenditure; there will be a matching increase in the funds distributed to universities and colleges through HEFCE grant.
Special Educational Provision
Sir Anthony Grant: To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many appeals for special educational provision under the Education Act 1981 are pending; what is the average time for determining these appeals; and if she will make a statement.
Mr. Forth: The Department is currently dealing with some 500 appeals under sections 5(6) and 8(6) of the Education Act 1981 and related complaints under sections 68 and 99 of the Education Act 1944.
Those resolved over the last year have taken on average about 10 months to conclude. Appeals under section 8(6)
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tend to take the longest to process, as the courts have made it clear that we must copy correspondence from one party to the other, and allow time for comment in the interests of natural justice, until no new issues arise. In such cases, much of the time taken is beyond the Department's control.Appeals against decisions taken by LEAs after 1 September under the Education Act 1993 are now referred to the Special Education Needs Tribunal, which is subject to different legal procedures and has a target of five months for deciding appeals.
Teacher Training Agency
Mr. Blunkett: To ask the Secretary of State for Education what adjustment is proposed to the total standard spending to take account of any transfer of functions from local authorities to the Teacher Training Agency for the 1995 96 financial year with respect to (a) the training of licensed and overseas trained teachers and (b) management training for head teachers; and if she will make a statement.
Mr. Robin Squire: The transfers from local authority finance to the Teacher Training Agency in 1995 96 were £2.26 million in respect of the licensed and overseas trained teachers schemes, and £2.774 million in respect of management training for heads. These transfers reflect the transfer of responsibilities from local authorities to the Teacher Training Agency.
School Statistics
Mr. Don Foster: To ask the Secretary of State for Education (1) what was the number and percentage of pupils in primary schools in (a) January 1991, (b) January 1992, (c) January 1993 and (d) January 1994 being taught in classes of (i) between 31 and 35 and (ii) more than 36 in maintained schools in each local education authority and in total;
(2) what was the number and percentage of pupils in secondary schools in (a) January 1991, (b) January 1992, (c) January 1993 and (d) January 1994 being taught in classes of between (i) 26 to 30, (ii) 31 to 35 and (iii) more than 36 in maintained schools in each local education authority and in total.
Mr. Robin Squire: The information requested is given in the tables.
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Numbers and percentages of pupils in single teacher classes by size in maintained primary and secondary
schools in each local education
authority in England, 1991-1994 (provisional)
Position in January each year
1. Primary schools (classes of size)
LEA 1991 1992
numbers percentages numbers percentages
|31-35 |36+ |31-35 |36+ |31-35 |36+ |31-35 |36+
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Corporation of London |0 |0 |0.0 |0.0 |0 |0 |0.0 |0.0
Camden |220 |0 |2.8 |0.0 |541 |0 |6.5 |0.0
Greenwich |1,178 |38 |7.0 |0.2 |1,305 |0 |7.8 |0.0
Hackney |257 |84 |2.2 |0.7 |219 |0 |1.9 |0.0
Hammersmith and Fulham |314 |40 |4.6 |0.6 |565 |84 |8.1 |1.2
Islington |315 |0 |2.8 |0.0 |756 |0 |6.6 |0.0
Kensington and Chelsea |187 |0 |4.0 |0.0 |130 |0 |2.7 |0.0
Lambeth |284 |84 |1.9 |0.6 |630 |0 |4.0 |0.0
Lewisham |661 |37 |4.0 |0.2 |1,943 |74 |11.0 |0.4
Southwark |1,352 |37 |8.5 |0.2 |1,326 |77 |7.9 |0.5
Tower Hamlets |448 |39 |3.8 |0.3 |475 |121 |3.9 |1.0
Wandsworth |323 |50 |2.5 |0.4 |697 |121 |5.2 |0.9
Westminster |218 |0 |3.5 |0.0 |252 |40 |3.7 |0.6
Barking and Dagenham |983 |153 |7.3 |1.1 |1,297 |234 |9.4 |1.7
Barnet |1,583 |128 |8.3 |0.7 |1,806 |180 |9.2 |0.9
Bexley |4,243 |118 |25.7 |0.7 |4,913 |108 |29.1 |0.6
Brent |1,430 |114 |8.2 |0.7 |1,375 |75 |7.9 |0.4
Bromley |6,097 |36 |32.1 |0.2 |6,381 |36 |33.0 |0.2
Croydon |2,763 |112 |12.8 |0.5 |3,264 |289 |15.0 |1.3
Ealing |3,277 |0 |15.3 |0.0 |3,219 |151 |14.6 |0.7
Enfield |4,616 |36 |25.7 |0.2 |5,147 |38 |27.3 |0.2
Haringey |435 |93 |2.7 |0.6 |441 |40 |2.7 |0.2
Harrow |4,175 |145 |27.7 |1.0 |4,140 |0 |27.2 |0.0
Havering |3,351 |72 |18.7 |0.4 |2,585 |0 |14.5 |0.0
Hillingdon |3,646 |426 |21.7 |2.5 |4,306 |439 |25.3 |2.6
Hounslow |4,615 |409 |30.8 |2.7 |4,894 |540 |31.8 |3.5
Kingston upon Thames |3,403 |36 |42.0 |0.4 |4,486 |219 |51.6 |2.5
Merton |1,420 |120 |13.6 |1.1 |1,726 |156 |14.9 |1.4
Newham |2,049 |214 |10.3 |1.1 |1,000 |294 |4.9 |1.4
Redbridge |8,224 |109 |55.7 |0.7 |8,331 |145 |55.6 |1.0
Richmond upon Thames |1,758 |40 |19.8 |0.5 |1,316 |37 |14.4 |0.4
Sutton |3,474 |257 |32.8 |2.4 |3,359 |181 |31.6 |1.7
Waltham Forest |3,161 |122 |19.6 |0.8 |2,763 |195 |16.8 |1.2
Birmingham |25,625 |1,129 |27.0 |1.2 |22,873 |868 |24.0 |0.9
Coventry |5,052 |402 |19.8 |1.6 |5,253 |505 |20.3 |2.0
Dudley |6,112 |620 |27.1 |2.7 |3,852 |595 |18.3 |2.8
Sandwell |7,934 |866 |31.0 |3.4 |7,549 |1,022 |29.3 |4.0
Solihull |4,730 |268 |27.7 |1.6 |4,637 |440 |27.2 |2.6
Walsall |3,338 |375 |16.4 |1.8 |3,606 |707 |17.3 |3.4
Wolverhampton |3,226 |339 |16.2 |1.7 |2,491 |274 |12.5 |1.4
Knowsley |3,320 |273 |21.1 |1.7 |3,568 |539 |22.7 |3.4
Liverpool |7,785 |686 |17.0 |1.5 |9,939 |666 |21.5 |1.4
St. Helens |4,133 |703 |27.7 |4.7 |4,467 |633 |30.1 |4.3
Sefton |7,410 |421 |31.3 |1.8 |7,586 |441 |31.1 |1.8
Wirral |2,243 |52 |8.6 |0.2 |3,170 |144 |11.7 |0.5
Bolton |7,018 |1,576 |32.9 |7.4 |6,879 |1,390 |31.8 |6.4
Bury |4,537 |404 |31.8 |2.8 |4,792 |521 |32.1 |3.5
Manchester |7,753 |1,731 |19.3 |4.3 |6,933 |1,428 |17.4 |3.6
Oldham |6,788 |1,399 |34.2 |7.0 |7,136 |802 |36.5 |4.1
Rochdale |6,376 |513 |36.1 |2.9 |5,969 |402 |34.7 |2.3
Salford |3,534 |676 |16.8 |3.2 |4,470 |468 |21.1 |2.2
Stockport |5,878 |695 |25.6 |3.0 |5,722 |1,013 |24.3 |4.3
Tameside |7,689 |439 |39.7 |2.3 |7,702 |365 |38.2 |1.8
Trafford |6,323 |1,107 |37.0 |6.5 |6,661 |1,668 |38.0 |9.5
Wigan |7,522 |2,544 |30.2 |10.2 |6,905 |1,779 |27.8 |7.1
Barnsley |2,962 |304 |15.3 |1.6 |3,099 |383 |15.8 |2.0
Doncaster |3,925 |584 |15.5 |2.3 |5,611 |846 |21.6 |3.3
Rotherham |1,905 |429 |8.5 |1.9 |2,362 |608 |10.6 |2.7
Sheffield |5,450 |1,197 |14.2 |3.1 |4,412 |1,497 |11.3 |3.8
Bradford |3,307 |76 |11.1 |0.3 |3,506 |73 |12.1 |0.3
Calderdale |4,663 |440 |28.3 |2.7 |3,763 |151 |22.4 |0.9
Kirklees |6,865 |1,032 |23.1 |3.5 |6,648 |785 |22.5 |2.7
Leeds |8,230 |2,017 |19.4 |4.7 |8,962 |2,655 |20.7 |6.1
Wakefield |6,707 |1,351 |27.4 |5.5 |7,130 |1,192 |28.6 |4.8
Gateshead |1,174 |137 |7.2 |0.8 |963 |131 |6.0 |0.8
Newcastle upon Tyne |4,477 |563 |24.1 |3.0 |4,593 |647 |23.4 |3.3
North Tyneside |1,416 |111 |10.0 |0.8 |2,478 |450 |17.1 |3.1
South Tyneside |1,757 |149 |12.7 |1.1 |1,940 |199 |13.7 |1.4
Sunderland |4,561 |155 |17.3 |0.6 |4,260 |116 |16.4 |0.4
Isles of Scilly |0 |0 |0.0 |0.0 |31 |0 |18.8 |0.0
Avon |19,859 |1,353 |28.1 |1.9 |19,247 |1,050 |26.9 |1.5
Bedfordshire |7,952 |1,454 |23.6 |4.3 |5,993 |1,474 |17.5 |4.3
Berkshire |15,695 |1,235 |29.9 |2.4 |13,063 |1,028 |24.5 |1.9
Buckinghamshire |15,170 |2,081 |28.0 |3.8 |15,128 |2,176 |27.0 |3.9
Cambridgeshire |13,111 |485 |25.4 |0.9 |13,118 |775 |24.9 |1.5
Cheshire |30,860 |4,587 |38.0 |5.6 |27,427 |3,859 |33.7 |4.7
Cleveland |10,496 |2,401 |19.2 |4.4 |10,344 |2,890 |18.3 |5.1
Cornwall |11,067 |917 |29.9 |2.5 |12,138 |1,364 |32.5 |3.7
Cumbria |6,018 |877 |16.3 |2.4 |7,164 |730 |19.5 |2.0
Derbyshire |18,032 |2,293 |25.1 |3.2 |22,117 |2,462 |30.6 |3.4
Devon |16,997 |2,512 |23.6 |3.5 |18,191 |2,039 |24.9 |2.8
Dorset |12,787 |1,172 |34.6 |3.2 |13,384 |1,169 |35.2 |3.1
Durham |12,603 |392 |25.5 |0.8 |11,146 |821 |22.3 |1.6
East Sussex |14,618 |326 |32.8 |0.7 |16,200 |182 |36.1 |0.4
Essex |28,763 |456 |25.0 |0.4 |27,344 |330 |23.6 |0.3
Gloucestershire |8,205 |219 |21.3 |0.6 |8,696 |187 |22.0 |0.5
Hampshire |36,781 |2,842 |31.1 |2.4 |33,788 |1,355 |28.4 |1.1
Hereford and Worcester |9,072 |916 |20.4 |2.1 |7,886 |551 |17.5 |1.2
Hertfordshire |16,216 |806 |23.0 |1.1 |18,080 |437 |25.1 |0.6
Humberside |14,054 |2,474 |19.4 |3.4 |13,976 |2,628 |19.2 |3.6
Isle of Wight |1,524 |113 |23.3 |1.7 |1,251 |226 |18.5 |3.3
Kent |41,200 |665 |35.6 |0.6 |35,834 |1,114 |30.6 |1.0
Lancashire |39,617 |6,205 |35.2 |5.5 |38,211 |6,500 |34.0 |5.8
Leicestershire |15,813 |1,177 |22.5 |1.7 |12,631 |1,425 |17.9 |2.0
Lincolnshire |12,122 |1,395 |26.6 |3.1 |10,067 |932 |22.0 |2.0
Norfolk |10,423 |658 |18.4 |1.2 |9,968 |303 |17.5 |0.5
North Yorkshire |11,002 |973 |21.1 |1.9 |10,693 |553 |20.3 |1.0
Northamptonshire |8,887 |521 |20.4 |1.2 |8,354 |294 |18.8 |0.7
Northumberland |6,672 |928 |36.2 |5.0 |5,565 |1,145 |29.8 |6.1
Nottinghamshire |10,345 |2,868 |13.3 |3.7 |12,826 |2,830 |16.3 |3.6
Oxfordshire |5,758 |675 |16.1 |1.9 |4,828 |474 |13.4 |1.3
Shropshire |6,033 |597 |19.3 |1.9 |5,256 |553 |16.5 |1.7
Somerset |9,479 |334 |30.0 |1.1 |9,290 |365 |28.9 |1.1
Staffordshire |16,389 |2,259 |20.3 |2.8 |18,441 |2,384 |22.4 |2.9
Suffolk |4,970 |275 |12.9 |0.7 |4,712 |166 |12.2 |0.4
Surrey |12,037 |568 |18.1 |0.9 |12,387 |721 |18.4 |1.1
Warwickshire |10,351 |450 |27.2 |1.2 |11,817 |1,005 |30.2 |2.6
West Sussex |9,570 |518 |20.4 |1.1 |11,250 |313 |23.0 |0.6
Wiltshire |8,488 |108 |21.1 |0.3 |7,993 |405 |19.5 |1.0
|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|-------
England |831,221 |79,997 |23.2 |2.2 |823,310 |79,492 |22.7 |2.2
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