EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT
Government Grants (Central London)
Ms Buck:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will list each category of grant, and the amount of each grant, paid by his Department to (a) Westminster and (b) Kensington and Chelsea in (i) 1997-98, (ii) 1998-99, (iii) 1999-2000 and (iv) 2000-01; and what the projected figure is for 2001-02. [146309]
Ms Estelle Morris:
Listed are the Department's school education grants and funding allocations paid to the City of Westminster and the Royal borough of Kensington and Chelsea for each of the last three years and the current year, and projected grant figures for 2001-02 where known. These do not include funding for former GM schools in 1997-98 and 1998-99 which received grant directly from the Funding Agency for Schools. The figures for 2000-01 are the total grants currently estimated to be paid to these local education authorities.
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Allocations 1997-98 to 2000-01 for the City of Westminster
£000
| Grant | 1997-98 | 1998-99 | 1999-2000 | 2000-01
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|---|
| School Capital | 1,072 | 2,025 | 1,339 | 4,089
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| Standards Fund | 490 | 742 | 3,153 | 5,464
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| School Standards Grant | -- | -- | -- | 687
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| School Budget Support Grant | -- | -- | -- | 128
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| Transitional Funding for former GM Schools Grant | -- | -- | -- | --
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| Nursery Education Grant (4-year-olds) | 1,209 | 507 | 521 | 525
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| Nursery Education Grant (3-year-olds) | -- | -- | 218 | 1,065
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| Teachers Pay Reform Threshold Special Grant | -- | -- | -- | 450
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| Partners for Study Support Grant | -- | -- | -- | 3
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| Independent/State School Partnership Grant Scheme | -- | 9 | 7 | --
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Allocations 1997-98 to 2000-01 for the Royal borough of Kensington and Chelsea
£000
| Grant | 1997-98 | 1998-99 | 1999-2000 | 2000-01
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|---|
| School Capital | 362 | 1,090 | 682 | 1,929
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| Standards Fund | 353 | 311 | 1,757 | 4,147
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| School Standards Grant | -- | -- | -- | 430
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| School Budget Support Grant | -- | -- | -- | 70
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| Transitional Funding for former GM Schools Grant | -- | -- | -- | 99
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| Nursery Education Grant (4-year-olds) | 806 | 252 | 208 | 229
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| Nursery Education Grant (3-year-olds) | -- | -- | -- | 806
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| Teachers Pay Reform Threshold Special Grant | -- | -- | -- | 270
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| Partners for Study Support Grant | -- | -- | -- | 10
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| Independent/State School Partnership Grant Scheme | -- | -- | -- | --
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Projected grant figures for 2001-01, where known
£000
| Grant | Westminster | Kensington and Chelsea
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|---|
| School Capital | 2,683 | 1,109
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| School Standards Grant | 1,240 | 810
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| Nursery Education Grant (3-year-olds) | 1,091 | 826
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| Partners for Study Support Grant | 9 | 10
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Final allocations of the Standards Fund, transitional funding for GM schools and Teachers Pay Reform Threshold Special Grant are not yet known for 2001-02.
In addition, Westminster and Kensington and Chelsea will receive in 2000-01 and 2001-02 Special Grant funding to support other elements of the pay reform package:
performance pay progression;
appointments to assistant head posts (leadership group grant);
It is not possible to predict figures per local education authority.
The Volunteer Bureau within the Royal borough of Kensington and Chelsea in partnership with Westminster Volunteer Bureau have been awarded £80,000 funding spread over two years, 2000-02, to co-ordinate both the recruitment of volunteers and the provision of mentoring support across both boroughs. This includes training volunteers' mentors to support a number of primary and secondary schools mentoring programmes.
Westminster and Kensington and Chelsea are one Excellence in Cities partnership. In 1999-2000 and 2000-01 they jointly received £35,000 for small scale projects and £6,000 for laptops in respect of this partnership. In 2000-01 they received £2,000 for good practice in respect of the partnership.
There have also been a number of miscellaneous payments made to Westminster and Kensington and Chelsea regarding the Graduate Teacher Programme and Registered Teacher Programme. This information could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
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Under this Government, funding per pupil has already increased by over £300 in real terms, and it will increase by a further £150 per pupil for 2001-02. Under the last Government, funding per pupil fell by £60 in real terms between 1994-95 and 1997-98. There will be further increases in funding following the year 2000 spending review: a further £370 per pupil over the three year period, taking the total increase to nearly £700 between 1997-98 and 2003-04.
Early Years Education
Mr. Willis:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will list for the (a) United Kingdom and (b) each local authority, the number of three-year-olds with free early years education places providing five or more sessions of education per week in (i) 1979, (ii) 1990 and (iii) for each year from 1992 to 2000. [147244]
Ms Hodge:
The information is not available in the form requested. Up to September 1999, free places for three-year-olds were available only in maintained nursery and primary schools. Since September 1999 specific funding by the Government for three-year-olds has been extended to private, voluntary and independent providers via the Early Years Development and Childcare Partnerships. The table accounts for places only in the maintained sector.
The available information on the numbers of three-year-olds in free early years provision for England and in each local education authority up to January 2000 is shown in the table. During 2000-01, £100 million has been made available to provide a further 40,000 free places for three-year-olds. In 2001-02, £250 million will be made available to provide 80,000 new additional places.
All four-year-olds have been guaranteed a free place since September 1998. By September 2004 all three- year-olds will have a free early education place. By 2004 expenditure on nursery education will have doubled from £1 to £2 billion.
For information on three-year-olds with free early years places in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, I refer the hon. Member to the Ministers responsible for Education in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, respectively.
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Table 1: Children aged three in free early years education places(3)
England and each local education authority in England, 1996-2000
| Position as at January | 1996(4) | 1997(4) | 1998(4) | 1999(4) | 2000(5),(9)
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|---|
| England | 210,075 | 214,173 | 222,031 | 225,669 | 266,350
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| | | | | |
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| North East | 23,955 | 23,707 | 22,944 | 22,452 | 24,280
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| Cleveland(7) | 7,427 | -- | -- | -- | --
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| Hartlepool(6),(8) | -- | 1,143 | 1,179 | 1,193 | 1,100
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| Middlesbrough(6),(8) | -- | 1,919 | 1,898 | 1,840 | 1,740
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| Redcar and Cleveland(6),(8) | -- | 1,988 | 1,794 | 1,784 | 1,800
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| Stockton-on-Tees(6),(8) | -- | 2,351 | 2,177 | 2,001 | 1,980
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| Durham(7) | 5,161 | 5,132 | -- | -- | --
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| Darlington(8) | -- | -- | 1,082 | 1,002 | 980
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| Durham(6),(8) | -- | -- | 3,935 | 3,786 | 4,150
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| Northumberland | 2,194 | 2,255 | 2,207 | 2,109 | 2,120
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| Gateshead(6) | 1,334 | 1,259 | 1,340 | 1,314 | 1,940
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| Newcastle-upon-Tyne(6) | 1,896 | 1,878 | 1,755 | 1,789 | 2,340
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| North Tyneside(6) | 1,905 | 1,837 | 1,783 | 1,816 | 1,840
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| South Tyneside(6) | 1,599 | 1,525 | 1,470 | 1,476 | 1,450
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| Sunderland(6) | 2,439 | 2,420 | 2,324 | 2,342 | 2,860
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| North West | 42,042 | 42,204 | 41,967 | 41,667 | 49,920
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| Cheshire(7) | 3,839 | 4,021 | 3,856 | -- | --
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| Halton(6),(8) | -- | -- | -- | 663 | 1,190
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| Warrington(8) | -- | -- | -- | 880 | 960
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| Cheshire(8) | -- | -- | -- | 2,242 | 2,250
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| Cumbria | 2,256 | 2,597 | 2,609 | 2,490 | 2,420
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| Bolton(6) | 2,250 | 2,295 | 2,177 | 2,104 | 2,950
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| Bury | 1,092 | 1,079 | 1,071 | 1,045 | 1,050
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| Manchester(6) | 3,744 | 3,722 | 4,382 | 4,229 | 4,490
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| Oldham(6) | 1,626 | 1,540 | 1,547 | 1,594 | 2,370
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| Rochdale(6) | 1,421 | 1,407 | 1,476 | 1,374 | 2,180
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| Salford(6) | 2,597 | 2,231 | 2,181 | 2,113 | 2,190
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| Stockport | 1,386 | 1,634 | 1,494 | 1,608 | 1,630
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| Tameside(6) | 1,732 | 1,705 | 1,631 | 1,620 | 2,090
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| Trafford | 1,877 | 1,856 | 1,684 | 1,627 | 1,580
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| Wigan | 1,436 | 1,434 | 1,428 | 1,443 | 1,510
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| Lancashire(7) | 5,601 | 5,648 | 5,623 | -- | --
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| Blackburn with Darwen(6),(8) | -- | -- | -- | 1,024 | 1,250
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| Blackpool(6),(8) | -- | -- | -- | 316 | 1,590
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| Lancashire(8) | -- | -- | -- | 4,427 | 4,250
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| Knowsley(6) | 2,104 | 2,044 | 2,037 | 2,032 | 2,140
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| Liverpool(6) | 4,433 | 4,187 | 4,039 | 3,920 | 5,060
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| St. Helens(6) | 1,108 | 1,108 | 1,050 | 1,113 | 1,460
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| Sefton(6) | 2,028 | 2,051 | 1,975 | 2,089 | 2,370
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| Wirral(6) | 1,512 | 1,645 | 1,707 | 1,714 | 2,940
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| | | | | |
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| Yorkshire and the Humber | 31,407 | 31,844 | 32,499 | 32,884 | 38,730
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| Humberside(7) | 4,670 | -- | -- | -- | --
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| East Riding of Yorkshire(8) | -- | 1,053 | 1,110 | 1,103 | 1,030
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| Kingston-upon-Hull, City of(6),(8) | -- | 2,240 | 2,284 | 2,252 | 2,570
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| North East Lincolnshire(6),(8) | -- | 922 | 978 | 1,010 | 1,520
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| North Lincolnshire(8) | -- | 521 | 551 | 554 | 590
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| North Yorkshire | 2,174 | -- | -- | -- | --
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| York(8) | -- | 676 | 752 | 811 | 790
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| North Yorkshire(8) | -- | 1,642 | 1,728 | 1,808 | 1,800
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| Barnsley(6) | 1,269 | 1,264 | 1,394 | 1,406 | 1,630
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| Doncaster(6) | 2,435 | 2,364 | 2,294 | 2,249 | 2,330
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| Rotherham(6) | 1,251 | 1,304 | 1,310 | 1,443 | 2,170
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| Sheffield(6) | 2,542 | 2,594 | 2,707 | 2,837 | 4,550
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| Bradford(6) | 4,132 | 4,376 | 4,795 | 4,694 | 5,510
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| Calderdale | 1,240 | 1,309 | 1,281 | 1,234 | 1,310
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| Kirklees(6) | 3,030 | 2,974 | 2,679 | 2,627 | 2,990
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| Leeds(6) | 6,023 | 6,065 | 6,074 | 6,231 | 6,950
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| Wakefield(6) | 2,641 | 2,540 | 2,562 | 2,625 | 3,010
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| East Midlands | 16,772 | 17,140 | 17,985 | 18,333 | 21,450
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| Derbyshire(7) | 5,013 | 4,943 | -- | -- | --
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| Derby(8) | -- | -- | 1,690 | 1,645 | 1,930
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| Derbyshire(8) | -- | -- | 3,387 | 3,472 | 4,240
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| Leicestershire(7) | 2,365 | 2,479 | -- | -- | --
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| Leicester(6),(8) | -- | -- | 2,361 | 2,343 | 3,230
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| Rutland(8) | -- | -- | 41 | 75 | 100
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| Leicestershire(8) | -- | -- | 72 | 89 | 90
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| Lincolnshire | 1,563 | 1,686 | 1,752 | 1,744 | 1,790
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| Northamptonshire | 2,214 | 2,277 | 2,398 | 2,330 | 2,300
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| Nottinghamshire(7) | 5,617 | 5,755 | 6,284 | -- | --
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| Nottingham(6),(8) | -- | -- | -- | 2,573 | 3,310
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| Nottinghamshire(8) | -- | -- | -- | 4,062 | 4,460
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| West Midlands | 29,020 | 29,098 | 30,665 | 30,522 | 35,690
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| Hereford and Worcester(7) | 567 | 762 | 1,663 | -- | --
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| Herefordshire(8) | -- | -- | -- | 313 | 340
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| Worcestershire(8) | -- | -- | -- | 1,376 | 1,530
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| Shropshire(7) | 749 | 790 | 955 | -- | --
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| Telford and Wrekin(6),(8) | -- | -- | -- | 510 | 1,000
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| Shropshire(8) | -- | -- | -- | 381 | 420
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| Staffordshire(7) | 4,630 | 4,664 | -- | -- | --
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| Stoke-on-Trent(6),(8) | -- | -- | 2,023 | 1,950 | 2,290
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| Staffordshire(8) | -- | -- | 2,745 | 2,656 | 2,560
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| Warwickshire | 1,408 | 1,357 | 1,415 | 1,490 | 1,600
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| Birmingham(6) | 7,488 | 7,427 | 7,527 | 7,420 | 10,200
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| Coventry(6) | 1,420 | 1,674 | 1,905 | 1,968 | 2,920
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| Dudley | 2,270 | 2,267 | 2,279 | 2,283 | 2,230
|
| Sandwell(6) | 3,290 | 3,035 | 3,104 | 3,106 | 3,240
|
| Solihull | 1,188 | 1,250 | 1,359 | 1,464 | 1,540
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| Walsall(6) | 3,239 | 3,079 | 3,004 | 2,951 | 3,000
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| Wolverhampton(6) | 2,771 | 2,793 | 2,686 | 2,654 | 2,820
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| East of England | 9,642 | 11,658 | 13,331 | 14,048 | 14,870
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| Bedfordshire(7) | 1,937 | 2,035 | -- | -- | --
|
| Luton(8) | -- | -- | 889 | 966 | 950
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| Bedfordshire(8) | -- | -- | 1,245 | 1,269 | 1,210
|
| Cambridgeshire(7) | 1,495 | 1,466 | 1,511 | -- | --
|
| Peterborough(8) | -- | -- | -- | 318 | 320
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| Cambridgeshire(8) | -- | -- | -- | 1,161 | 1,090
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| Essex(7) | 1,166 | 1,964 | 2,353 | -- | --
|
| Southend-on-Sea(8) | -- | -- | -- | 392 | 450
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| Thurrock(8) | -- | -- | -- | 435 | 470
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| Essex(8) | -- | -- | -- | 1,984 | 1,960
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| Hertfordshire | 3,853 | 4,095 | 4,951 | 4,908 | 5,890
|
| Norfolk | 739 | 1,493 | 1,823 | 1,898 | 1,890
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| Suffolk | 452 | 605 | 559 | 717 | 630
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| London | 39,869 | 40,536 | 42,304 | 44,864 | 57,190
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| Inner London | 18,696 | 18,959 | 19,597 | 21,437 | 29,160
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| City of London | 12 | 11 | 15 | 11 | 10
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| Camden(6) | 765 | 802 | 890 | 928 | 1,450
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| Hackney(6) | 1,536 | 1,474 | 1,543 | 1,624 | 2,430
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| Hammersmith and Fulham(6) | 1,055 | 1,053 | 1,055 | 1,061 | 1,470
|
| Haringey(6) | 1,894 | 2,004 | 1,944 | 1,949 | 2,210
|
| Islington(6) | 1,342 | 1,266 | 1,256 | 1,283 | 1,840
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| Kensington and Chelsea | 486 | 542 | 523 | 513 | 590
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| Lambeth(6) | 1,396 | 1,462 | 1,855 | 1,911 | 3,150
|
| Lewisham(6) | 1,363 | 1,412 | 1,475 | 1,877 | 2,560
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| Newham(6) | 2,074 | 2,030 | 2,103 | 3,189 | 3,860
|
| Southwark(6) | 2,158 | 2,222 | 2,290 | 2,278 | 2,820
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| Tower Hamlets(6) | 2,288 | 2,340 | 2,264 | 2,405 | 2,610
|
| Wandsworth(6) | 1,590 | 1,614 | 1,590 | 1,584 | 2,860
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| Westminster(6) | 737 | 727 | 794 | 824 | 1,300
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| Outer London | 21,173 | 21,577 | 22,707 | 23,427 | 28,030
|
| Barking and Dagenham(6) | 1,331 | 1,332 | 1,408 | 1,329 | 1,630
|
| Barnet | 1,780 | 2,021 | 2,010 | 2,026 | 2,010
|
| Bexley | 1,009 | 1,069 | 1,242 | 1,300 | 1,390
|
| Brent(6) | 1,778 | 1,712 | 1,706 | 1,708 | 2,380
|
| Bromley | 111 | 107 | 197 | 216 | 240
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| Croydon | 1,420 | 1,537 | 1,720 | 1,859 | 1,830
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| Ealing(6) | 2,705 | 2,625 | 2,692 | 2,686 | 3,140
|
| Enfield | 1,110 | 1,112 | 1,136 | 1,235 | 1,230
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| Greenwich(6) | 1,785 | 1,981 | 1,841 | 1,889 | 2,600
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| Harrow | 489 | 451 | 588 | 576 | 620
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| Havering | 378 | 449 | 464 | 459 | 550
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| Hillingdon | 473 | 560 | 620 | 636 | 1,360
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| Hounslow(6) | 1,562 | 1,563 | 1,605 | 1,505 | 1,990
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| Kingston upon Thames | 931 | 888 | 892 | 892 | 940
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| Merton | 1,749 | 1,644 | 1,707 | 1,668 | 1,670
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| Redbridge | 626 | 687 | 824 | 1,318 | 1,600
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| Richmond upon Thames | 597 | 570 | 587 | 555 | 590
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| Sutton | 270 | 325 | 259 | 289 | 250
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| Waltham Forest(6) | 1,069 | 944 | 1,209 | 1,281 | 2,040
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| South East | 10,128 | 10,602 | 11,763 | 12,155 | 13,300
|
| Berkshire(7) | 1,427 | 1,413 | 2,049 | -- | --
|
| Bracknell Forest(8) | -- | -- | -- | 90 | 110
|
| Windsor and Maidenhead(8) | -- | -- | -- | 290 | 310
|
| West Berkshire(8) | -- | -- | -- | 216 | 260
|
| Reading(8) | -- | -- | -- | 614 | 740
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| Slough(8) | -- | -- | -- | 822 | 930
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| Wokingham(8) | -- | -- | -- | 90 | 140
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| Buckinghamshire(7) | 758 | 887 | -- | -- | --
|
| Milton Keynes(8) | -- | -- | 301 | 313 | 370
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| Buckinghamshire(8) | -- | -- | 695 | 686 | 690
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| East Sussex(7) | 1,351 | 1,383 | -- | -- | --
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| Brighton and Hove(6),(8) | -- | -- | 816 | 770 | 1,460
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| East Sussex(8) | -- | -- | 606 | 595 | 570
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| Hampshire(7) | 1,396 | 1,459 | -- | -- | --
|
| Portsmouth(8) | -- | -- | 459 | 495 | 440
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| Southampton(8) | -- | -- | 406 | 428 | 440
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| Hampshire(8) | -- | -- | 559 | 605 | 600
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| Isle of Wight(6) | 124 | 115 | 125 | 118 | 160
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| Kent(7) | 1,676 | 1,847 | 1,812 | -- | --
|
| Medway(8) | -- | -- | -- | 359 | 420
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| Kent(8) | -- | -- | -- | 1,495 | 1,410
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| Oxfordshire | 705 | 770 | 866 | 908 | 1,000
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| Surrey | 2,053 | 2,080 | 2,234 | 2,384 | 2,430
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| West Sussex | 638 | 648 | 835 | 877 | 840
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| South West | 7,240 | 7,384 | 8,573 | 8,744 | 10,930
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| Avon(7) | 3,551 | -- | -- | -- | --
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| Bath and North East Somerset(8) | -- | 308 | 309 | 317 | 300
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| Bristol, City of(8) | -- | 2,755 | 2,817 | 2,836 | 2,800
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| North Somerset(8) | -- | 159 | 164 | 157 | 200
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| South Gloucestershire(8) | -- | 403 | 320 | 325 | 330
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| Cornwall(6) | 976 | 988 | 962 | 1,042 | 2,710
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| Isles of Scilly | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0
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| Devon(7) | 1,384 | 1,378 | 2,210 | -- | --
|
| Torbay(8) | -- | -- | -- | 326 | 390
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| Plymouth(6),(8) | -- | -- | -- | 747 | 1,130
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| Devon(8) | -- | -- | -- | 1,172 | 1,200
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| Dorset(7) | 545 | 554 | -- | -- | --
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| Bournemouth(8) | -- | -- | 287 | 246 | 270
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| Poole(8) | -- | -- | 92 | 78 | 80
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| Dorset(8) | -- | -- | 214 | 208 | 250
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| Gloucestershire | 17 | 58 | 72 | 83 | 70
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| Somerset | 401 | 472 | 499 | 477 | 470
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| Wiltshire(7) | 365 | 309 | -- | -- | --
|
| Swindon(8) | -- | -- | 324 | 428 | 410
|
| Wiltshire(8) | -- | -- | 300 | 300 | 320
|
(3) Prior to September 1999, free places for three-year-olds were available only in maintained nursery and primary schools. Since September 1999 funding has been extended to private, voluntary and independent providers.
(4) Headcount numbers collected from maintained schools in January each year as part of the Annual Schools' Census.
(5) Combining Annual Schools' Census data from maintained schools in January 2000 and data submitted by LEAs for Nursery Education Grant purposes relating to private, voluntary and independent providers in spring 2000.
(6) LEA's eligible to provide funding for three-year-olds in the private, voluntary and independent sectors via Early Years Development and Childcare Partnerships. In spring 2000 there were a total of 65 such LEAs in England.
(7) Before Local Government Re-organisation.
(8) After Local Government Re-organisation.
Note:
Figures have been rounded to the nearest 10.
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