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Schools White Paper

Mr. Blunkett: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if the pamphlet "Self-Government for Schools: A Summary" was accompanied with a letter noting that the White Paper is a consultation paper; and in what form responses to the consultation were invited. [40586]

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Mr. Forth: A summary of the White Paper "Self-Government for Schools" was sent to the head teachers and chairmen of governors of all local education authority-maintained and grant-maintained schools. It was accompanied by a letter from my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State. The letter invited comments on the White Paper by 4 October, gave details of where they should be sent, and noted that each school was eligible for one free copy of the White Paper on request.

Mr. Blunkett: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many responses her Department has received to the consultation on the White Paper "Self-Government for Schools", listed by type of organisation consulted; which consultees responded favourably; which consultees offered criticisms; and what was the nature of these criticisms. [40588]

Mr. Forth: My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State received some 600 responses to the White Paper by the deadline of 4 October. We are currently analysing the responses. A summary will be placed in the Library in due course.

Mr. Blunkett: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many copies of "Self-Government for Schools: A Summary" were sent out; to which bodies; and at what total cost. [40585]

Mr. Forth: The summary of the White Paper "Self-Government for Schools" was sent to the head teachers and chairmen of governors of all local education authorities-maintained and grant-maintained schools. It has also been made available to interested parties on request. Over 70,000 copies have so far been issued. The cost of producing and distributing the summaries sent to schools was some £18,000.

Students (Hardship Funds)

Mr. Don Foster: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many students applied for hardship funds in (a) 1993-94, (b) 1994-95 and (c) 1995-96 for (i) further and (ii) higher education; and if she will make a statement. [40579]

Mr. Forth: The purpose of the hardship funds, correctly known as the access funds, is to provide financial help to students whose access to further or higher education might be inhibited by financial considerations or who, for whatever reason, including physical or other disabilities, face financial difficulties.

From the information provided by institutions, the number of eligible applicants for further and higher education access funds were as follows:

Academic year	Further education	Higher education
1993-94	41,668	77,060
1994-95	51,027	77,005
1995-96	n/a	n/a

n/a = not yet available.

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Discretionary Awards

Mr. Blunkett: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what (a) statistics and (b) representations her Department has assessed regarding spending on (i) discretionary awards and (ii) special needs by local education authorities in England in 1995-96 and 1996-97; and if she will make a statement. [40545]

Mr. Forth: The latest available data from local education authorities on discretionary awards are for the academic year 1994-95. Provisional national data were published in a departmental press notice--110/96--on 1 April 1996. Final data, including information from individual local education authorities, will be published on 22 November in the statistics of education student support volume, 1994-95. Provisional data at national level for the academic year 1995-96 will be available in spring 1997.

Both the number and level of discretionary awards have been in decline recently. Representations have been made about this by a wide range of bodies representing the interests of students and institutions in dance and drama, horticulture and agriculture, legal practice and other disciplines. These are matters for local education authorities, who decide which students to support and at what rates in the light of local needs and priorities and the resources available.

Funds for special education are contained within the education standard spending assessment but cannot be separately identified. Local education authorities can and do spend more or less than their education SSA on education services.

Teaching Publicity

Mr. Blunkett: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what was the amount spent on publicity and promotion for each year since 1994, by the Teacher Training Agency (i) in total and (ii) broken down into components; how many calls are received annually by the telephone line promoting teaching as a career; and what evidence she has assessed to indicate that the telephone line has improved recruitment. [40587]

Mr. Forth: This is a matter for the Teacher Training Agency. I will ask the chairman of the agency, Geoffrey Parker, to write to the hon. Member direct.

Primary Schools

Mr. Don Foster: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what was the average size of single teacher classes in primary schools in January in each local education authority and in total; and what was the actual and percentage change in numbers compared with January 1995 in each local education authority and in total.

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Mr. Robin Squire: The information is shown in the table:

Average size of classes taught by one teacher in maintained primary schools in each local education authority area in England 1995 and 1996 (provisional)Position in January each year

	Average class size		Change(31)
LEA	1995	(30)1996	Number 1995-96	Percentage 1995-96
Corporation of London	26.8	26.8	0.0	0.0
Camden	27.3	27.3	-0.1	-0.3
Greenwich	26.4	25.5	-0.9	-3.2
Hackney	26.1	26.1	0.0	-0.1
Hammersmith and Fulham	25.6	26.1	0.5	1.8
Islington	26.6	26.2	-0.3	-1.2
Kensington and Chelsea	25.1	24.4	-0.7	-2.8
Lambeth	24.6	24.6	0.0	-0.2
Lewisham	25.4	25.7	0.3	1.1
Southwark	26.9	26.1	-0.8	-2.9
Tower Hamlets	26.7	25.8	-0.9	-3.5
Wandsworth	25.2	25.4	0.2	0.9
Westminster	25.3	24.9	-0.4	-1.7
Barking and Dagenham	26.7	26.7	0.0	-0.1
Barnet	26.5	26.3	-0.2	-0.8
Bexley	28.6	28.6	0.0	0.1
Brent	26.9	26.7	-0.2	-0.7
Bromley	28.4	28.7	0.3	1.0
Croydon	28.1	28.3	0.2	0.8
Ealing	26.6	27.2	0.6	2.2
Enfield	28.4	28.5	0.1	0.5
Haringey	27.2	27.0	-0.2	-0.6
Harrow	27.1	27.8	0.7	2.8
Havering	27.4	27.9	0.5	2.0
Hillingdon	26.8	26.6	-0.2	-0.9
Hounslow	27.4	27.3	-0.1	-0.3
Kingston upon Thames	29.5	30.0	0.5	1.8
Merton	27.0	28.1	1.1	4.0
Newham	27.5	27.9	0.3	1.2
Redbridge	29.2	29.0	-0.2	-0.7
Richmond upon Thames	26.1	26.7	0.5	2.0
Sutton	28.0	27.3	-0.7	-2.4
Waltham Forest	26.5	26.4	-0.1	-0.3
Birmingham	28.2	27.8	-0.4	-1.5
Coventry	27.8	27.2	-0.6	-2.2
Dudley	27.3	26.9	-0.4	-1.5
Sandwell	28.2	28.6	0.4	1.4
Solihull	27.6	28.2	0.6	2.0
Walsall	26.0	26.0	-0.1	-0.4
Wolverhampton	26.2	26.5	0.3	1.1
Knowsley	28.0	27.6	-0.3	-1.2
Liverpool	27.1	26.8	-0.3	-1.1
St. Helens	27.0	27.5	0.5	1.7
Sefton	27.6	27.5	-0.1	-0.3
Wirral	26.1	26.4	0.3	1.1
Bolton	28.7	28.5	-0.2	-0.8
Bury	27.8	28.3	0.5	1.9
Manchester	26.9	27.0	0.1	0.5
Oldham	28.5	28.6	0.1	0.3
Rochdale	29.2	29.2	0.0	-0.1
Salford	27.3	27.4	0.1	0.5
Stockport	27.5	27.7	0.3	1.0
Tameside	29.5	29.3	-0.2	-0.5
Trafford	29.0	28.7	-0.3	-1.2
Wigan	28.0	28.2	0.2	0.6
Barnsley	27.5	28.2	0.7	2.7
Doncaster	28.1	28.2	0.1	0.5
Rotherham	25.8	26.9	1.1	4.4
Sheffield	26.8	26.8	0.0	-0.1
Bradford	27.8	27.9	0.1	0.4
Calderdale	27.5	27.7	0.2	0.7
Kirklees	28.2	28.7	0.4	1.5
Leeds	28.2	28.1	-0.1	-0.3
Wakefield	27.9	28.0	0.1	0.3
Gateshead	26.0	25.9	-0.1	-0.4
Newcastle upon Tyne	27.6	27.7	0.1	0.4
North Tyneside	26.9	27.0	0.2	0.6
South Tyneside	26.3	26.8	0.5	1.8
Sunderland	25.4	25.6	0.3	1.0
Isles of Scilly	17.3	13.7	-3.6	-20.8
Avon	27.8	27.7	-0.1	-0.5
Bedfordshire	26.8	27.1	0.3	1.1
Berkshire	27.0	27.3	0.3	1.2
Buckinghamshire	27.3	27.8	0.4	1.5
Cambridge	27.3	27.8	0.5	1.9
Cheshire	27.3	27.4	0.1	0.5
Cleveland	26.9	26.9	0.0	0.0
Cornwall	27.0	27.3	0.3	1.1
Cumbria	26.2	26.0	-0.2	-0.8
Derbyshire	27.9	28.9	1.0	3.7
Devon	26.7	27.2	0.5	1.8
Dorset	27.6	27.7	0.1	0.3
Durham	27.7	28.4	0.8	2.8
East Sussex	27.5	27.7	0.2	0.8
Essex	26.9	26.9	0.0	0.1
Gloucestershire	26.7	27.2	0.5	2.0
Hampshire	27.7	27.8	0.1	0.4
Hereford and Worcester	25.5	25.9	0.4	1.4
Hertfordshire	26.5	26.7	0.2	0.7
Humberside	27.7	27.9	0.2	0.7
Isle of Wight	26.3	26.9	0.6	2.4
Kent	27.7	27.7	0.0	0.1
Lancashire	27.9	28.4	0.6	2.0
Leicestershire	26.5	26.7	0.3	1.0
Lincolnshire	26.8	26.7	-0.1	-0.4
Norfolk	25.4	26.0	0.6	2.4
North Yorkshire	26.2	26.3	0.1	0.3
Northamptonshire	26.7	26.5	-0.1	-0.5
Northumberland	27.2	27.1	0.0	-0.1
Nottinghamshire	27.4	28.3	0.9	3.4
Oxfordshire	25.9	26.8	0.9	3.6
Shropshire	26.6	27.3	0.7	2.8
Somerset	27.0	27.3	0.3	1.2
Staffordshire	27.6	27.7	0.1	0.4
Suffolk	24.9	25.1	0.2	0.9
Surrey	25.6	25.8	0.2	0.7
Warwickshire	26.9	27.9	1.0	3.8
West Sussex	26.5	26.8	0.2	0.9
Wiltshire	26.9	27.1	0.3	0.9
England	27.1	27.3	0.2	0.7

(30) Provisional.

(31) Rounding of components may cause discrepancies in number and percentage changes. The comparable average class size in 1979 was 25.9.

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Mr. Foster: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what percentage, and how many primary school pupils were in classes of over 30 in January in each local education authority and in total; and what was the actual and percentage change in numbers compared with January 1995 in each local education authority and in total. [40159]

Mr. Squire: I refer the hon. Member to the answer that I gave to the hon. Member for Sheffield, Brightside (Mr. Blunkett) on 14 October 1996.

Mr. Foster: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what percentage and how many primary school pupils were in classes of over 36 in January in each local education authority and in total; and what was the actual and percentage change in numbers compared with January 1995 in each local education authority and in total. [40160]

Mr. Squire: The information requested is shown in the table.

Numbers and percentages of pupils in classes of size 37 or more taught by one teacher in maintained primary schools in each local education authority area in England: 1995 and 1996 (provisional)

	1995		1996		Change
	Pupils	Percentage(32)	Pupils	Percentage(33)	Number	Percentage(34)

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Corporation of London	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0
Camden	0	0.0	37	0.4	37	(35)--
Greenwich	50	0.3	0	0.0	-50	-100.0
Hackney	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0
Hammersmith and Fulham	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0
Islington	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0
Kensington and Chelsea	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0
Lambeth	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0
Lewisham	84	0.5	0	0.0	-84	-100.0
Southwark	37	0.2	0	0.0	-37	-100.0
Tower Hamlets	50	0.3	37	0.3	-13	-26.0
Wandsworth	77	0.5	296	2.1	219	284.4
Westminster	39	0.6	0	0.0	-39	-100.0
Barking	323	2.1	272	1.8	-51	-15.8
Barnet	76	0.4	164	0.8	88	115.8
Bexley	37	0.2	112	0.5	75	202.7
Brent	346	1.8	170	0.9	-176	-50.9
Bromley	111	0.5	150	0.6	39	35.1
Croydon	38	0.2	78	0.3	40	105.3
Ealing	78	0.4	118	0.5	40	51.3
Enfield	0	0.0	0	0.0	0.	0.0
Haringey	39	0.2	0	0.0	-39	-100.0
Harrow	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0
Havering	37	0.2	127	0.6	90	243.2
Hillingdon	477	2.6	387	2.1	-90	-18.9
Hounslow	540	3.2	462	2.8	-78	-14.4
Kingston upon Thames	76	0.8	197	2.0	121	159.2
Merton	217	1.7	359	2.8	142	65.4
Newham	76	0.3	204	0.8	128	168.4
Redbridge	111	0.7	74	0.4	-37	-33.3
Richmond upon Thames	60	0.6	0	0.0	-60	-100.0
Sutton	78	0.6	115	0.9	37	47.4
Waltham Forest	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0
Birmingham	1,079	1.1	1,277	1.3	198	18.4
Coventry	571	2.1	386	1.4	-185	-32.4
Dudley	1,141	4.7	1,085	4.4	-56	-4.9
Sandwell	589	2.1	895	3.1	306	52.0
Solihull	341	1.8	339	1.8	-2	-0.6
Walsall	193	0.8	458	2.0	265	137.3
Wolverhampton	230	1.1	610	2.8	380	165.2
Knowsley	591	3.3	475	2.6	-116	-19.6
Liverpool	569	1.2	338	0.7	-231	-40.6
St Helens	687	4.7	807	5.5	120	17.5
Sefton	262	1.0	417	1.7	155	59.2
Wirral	339	1.2	338	1.2	-1	-0.3
Bolton	1,420	6.3	1,751	7.4	331	23.3
Bury	261	1.7	267	1.7	6	2.3
Manchester	789	1.9	1,539	3.6	750	95.1
Oldham	574	2.7	598	2.8	24	4.2
Rochdale	272	1.4	233	1.2	-39	-14.3
Salford	595	2.6	887	3.9	292	49.1
Stockport	608	2.5	878	3.5	270	44.4
Tameside	306	1.4	452	2.1	146	47.7
Trafford	946	5.0	419	2.2	-527	-55.7
Wigan	1,138	4.3	1,377	5.3	239	21.0
Barnsley	504	2.5	499	2.4	-5	-1.0
Doncaster	1,358	5.2	1,163	4.3	-195	-14.4
Rotherham	200	0.9	314	1.4	114	57.0
Sheffield	1,328	3.4	1,389	3.5	61	4.6
Bradford	883	2.7	1,309	3.9	426	48.2
Calderdale	0	0.0	197	1.1	197	(35)--
Kirklees	1,140	3.5	1,489	4.6	349	30.6
Leeds	2,190	3.6	2,354	3.9	164	7.5
Wakefield	1,440	5.2	1,206	4.3	-234	-16.3
Gateshead	117	0.7	80	0.5	-37	-31.6
Newcastle upon Tyne	710	3.5	623	3.0	-87	-12.3
North Tyneside	283	1.9	395	2.6	112	39.6
South Tyneside	562	3.8	484	3.3	-78	-13.9
Sunderland	155	0.6	113	0.4	-42	-27.1
Isles of Scilly	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0
Avon	613	0.8	867	1.1	254	41.4
Bedfordshire	1,824	4.7	2,094	5.4	270	14.8
Berkshire	625	1.1	622	1.0	-3	-0.5
Buckinghamshire	2,247	3.8	2,404	4.0	157	7.0
Cambridgeshire	375	0.7	414	0.7	39	10.4
Cheshire	1,717	2.0	2,035	2.4	318	18.5
Cleveland	2,131	3.6	2,126	3.6	-5	-0.2
Cornwall	766	1.9	533	1.3	-233	-30.4
Cumbria	682	1.7	756	1.9	74	10.9
Derybshire	3,116	4.0	7,176	9.1	4,060	130.3
Devon	879	1.1	1,412	1.8	533	60.6
Dorset	188	0.4	388	0.9	200	106.4
Durham	844	1.6	1,123	2.2	279	33.1
East Sussex	74	0.2	336	0.7	262	354.1
Essex	417	0.3	372	0.3	-45	-10.8
Gloucestershire	155	0.4	306	0.7	151	97.4
Hampshire	1,257	1.0	1,416	1.1	159	12.6
Hereford and Worcester	306	0.6	598	1.2	292	95.4
Hertfordshire	194	0.2	225	0.3	31	16.0
Humberside	3,272	4.1	3,114	3.9	-158	-4.8
Isle of Wight	39	0.6	115	1.6	76	194.9
Kent	359	0.3	508	0.4	149	41.5
Lancashire	2,834	2.3	3,922	3.2	1,088	38.4
Leicestershire	1,117	1.5	1,826	2.4	709	63.5
Lincolnshire	497	1.0	572	1.1	75	15.1
Norfolk	93	0.2	348	0.6	255	274.2
North Yorkshire	1,108	2.0	932	1.6	-176	-15.9
Northamptonshire	188	0.4	504	1.0	316	168.1
Northumberland	662	3.4	581	3.0	-81	-12.2
Nottinghamshire	2,973	3.6	3,257	3.9	284	9.6
Oxfordshire	410	1.0	775	1.9	365	89.0
Shropshire	416	1.2	516	1.5	100	24.0
Somerset	204	0.6	341	0.9	137	67.2
Staffordshire	3,282	3.7	3,623	4.0	341	10.4
Suffolk	74	0.2	76	0.2	2	2.7
Surrey	592	0.9	360	0.5	-232	-39.2
Warwickshire	678	1.6	658	1.5	-20	-2.9
West Sussex	336	0.6	153	0.3	-183	-54.5
Wiltshire	336	0.7	377	0.8	41	12.2
England	65,308	1.7	78,561	2.0	13,253	20.3

(32) Provisional.

(33) Number of pupils in single teacher classes of size 37 or more expressed a percentage of all pupils in single teacher classes.

(34) Change in the number of pupils in single teacher classes of 37 or more between 1995 and 1996 expressed as a percentage of pupils in single teacher classes of 37 or more in 1995.

(35) No pupils in single teacher classes of 37 or more taught by one teacher in 1995.

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Mr. Foster: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what percentage and how many primary school pupils were in classes of over 40 in January in each local education authority and in total; and what was the actual and percentage change in numbers compared

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with January 1995 in each local education authority and in total. [40161]

Mr. Squire: The information requested is shown in the table:

Numbers and percentages of pupils in classes of size 41 or more taught by one teacher in maintained primary schools in each local education authority area in England: 1995 and 1996 (provisional)Position in January in each year

	1995		1996		Change
	Pupils	Percentage(36)	Pupils	Percentage(37)	Number	Percentage(38)

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Corporation of London	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0
Camden	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0
Greenwich	50	0.3	0	0.0	-50	-100.0
Hackney	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0
Hammersmith and Fulham	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0
Islington	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0
Kensington and Chelsea	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0
Lambeth	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0
Lewisham	47	0.3	0	0.0	-47	-100.0
Southwark	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0
Tower Hamlets	50	0.3	0	0.0	-50	-100.0
Wandsworth	0	0.0	62	0.4	62	(39)--
Westminster	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0
Barking	52	0.3	0	0.0	-52	-100.0
Barnet	0	0.0	48	0.2	48	(39)--
Bexley	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0
Brent	188	1.0	95	0.5	-93	-49.5
Bromley	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0
Croydon	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0
Ealing	0	0.0	44	0.2	44	(39)--
Enfield	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0
Haringey	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0
Harrow	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0
Havering	0	0.0	50	0.3	50	(39)--
Hillingdon	86	0.5	41	0.2	-45	-52.3
Hounslow	41	0.2	41	0.2	0	0.0
Kingston upon Thames	0	0.0	47	0.5	47	(39)--
Merton	138	1.1	51	0.4	-87	-63.0
Newham	0	0.0	52	0.2	52	(39)--
Redbridge	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0
Richmond upon Thames	60	0.6	0	0.0	-60	-100.0
Sutton	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0
Waltham Forest	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0
Birmingham	107	0.1	157	0.2	50	46.7
Coventry	75	0.3	0	0.0	-75	-100.0
Dudley	867	3.6	775	3.2	-92	-10.6
Sandwell	42	0.2	83	0.3	41	97.6
Solihull	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0
Walsall	42	0.2	45	0.2	3	7.1
Wolverhampton	0	0.0	233	1.1	233	(39)--
Knowsley	52	0.3	52	0.3	0	0.0
Liverpool	230	0.5	0	0.0	-230	-100.0
St. Helens	0	0.0	83	0.6	83	(39)--
Sefton	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0
Wirral	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0
Bolton	194	0.9	535	2.3	341	175.8
Bury	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0
Manchester	177	0.4	582	1.4	405	228.8
Oldham	188	0.9	178	0.8	-10	-5.3
Rochdale	87	0.4	41	0.2	-46	-52.9
Salford	94	0.4	314	1.4	220	234.0
Stockport	47	0.2	117	0.5	70	148.9
Tameside	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0
Trafford	41	0.2	0	0.0	-41	-100.0
Wigan	87	0.3	127	0.5	40	46.0
Barnsley	193	1.0	152	0.7	-41	-21.2
Doncaster	41	0.2	0	0.0	-41	-100.0
Rotherham	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0
Sheffield	244	0.6	229	0.6	-15	-6.1
Bradford	0	0.0	43	0.1	43	(39)--
Calderdale	0	0.0	45	0.2	45	(39)--
Kirklees	91	0.3	139	0.4	48	52.7
Leeds	266	0.4	244	0.4	-22	-8.3
Wakefield	54	0.2	52	0.2	-2	-3.7
Gateshead	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0
Newcastle upon Tyne	134	0.7	49	0.2	-85	-63.4
North Tyneside	50	0.3	50	0.3	0	0.0
South Tyneside	103	0.7	99	0.7	-4	-3.9
Sunderland	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0
Isles of Scilly	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0
Avon	92	0.1	44	0.1	-48	-52.2
Bedfordshire	509	1.3	482	1.2	-27	-5.3
Berkshire	85	0.1	46	0.1	-39	-45.9
Buckinghamshire	419	0.7	372	0.6	-47	-11.2
Cambridgeshire	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0
Cheshire	213	0.2	142	0.2	-71	-33.3
Cleveland	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0
Cornwall	87	0.2	41	0.1	-46	-52.9
Cumbria	110	0.3	111	0.3	1	0.9
Derbyshire	474	0.6	722	0.9	248	52.3
Devon	45	0.1	128	0.2	83	184.4
Dorset	0	0.0	86	0.2	86	(39)--
Durham	0	0.0	167	0.3	167	(39)--
East Sussex	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0
Essex	230	0.2	109	0.1	-121	-52.6
Gloucestershire	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0
Hampshire	46	0.0	47	0.0	1	2.2
Hereford and Worcester	41	0.1	150	0.3	109	265.9
Hertfordshire	42	0.1	0	0.0	-42	-100.0
Humberside	391	0.5	229	0.3	-162	-41.4
Isle of Wight	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0
Kent	285	0.2	89	0.1	-196	-68.8
Lancashire	244	0.2	41	0.0	-203	-83.2
Leicestershire	424	0.6	224	0.3	-200	-47.2
Lincolnshire	82	0.2	42	0.1	-40	-48.8
Norfolk	55	0.1	43	0.1	-12	-21.8
North Yorkshire	50	0.1	140	0.2	90	180.0
Northamptonshire	0	0.0	42	0.1	42	(39)--
Northumberland	41	0.2	0	0.0	-41	-100.0
Nottinghamshire	543	0.7	212	0.3	-331	-61.0
Oxfordshire	98	0.3	0	0.0	-98	-100.0
Shropshire	0	0.0	102	0.3	102	(39)--
Somerset	53	0.1	41	0.1	-12	-22.6
Staffordshire	657	0.7	539	0.6	-118	-18.0
Suffolk	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0
Surrey	89	0.1	45	0.1	-44	-49.4
Warwickshire	175	0.4	44	0.1	-131	-74.9
West Sussex	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0
Wiltshire	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0
England	9,798	0.3	9,435	0.2	-363	-3.7

(36) Provisional.

(37) Pupils in single teacher classes of 41 or more expressed as a percentage of all pupils in single teacher classes.

(38) Change in the number of pupils in single teacher classes of 41 or more between 1995 and 1996 expressed as a percentage of pupils in single teacher classes of 41 or more in 1995.

(39) No pupils in single teacher classes of 41 or more taught by one teacher in 1995.

15 Oct 1996 : Column: 893

15 Oct 1996 : Column: 893

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