House of Commons Hansard Written Answers for 5 Nov 2001 (pt 13)

Illiteracy

Mr. Laws: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how may school children in England are judged to be illiterate in each age cohort; and if she will make a statement. [11491]

Mr. Timms: Early statistics for this year show that 99 per cent. of 15-year-olds (549,450 pupils) achieved a GCSE pass in English. Literacy standards are also rising in primary schools; this year 75 per cent. of 11-year-olds (474,000 pupils) achieved the expected standard for their age in the key stage 2 English tests, an increase of 10 per cent. points since 1998.

Failing Schools (Private Firms)

Mr. Damian Green: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if she will list the statutory provisions that prevent private firms taking over the running of failing schools. [11536]

Mr. Timms [holding answer 31 October 2001]: Section 38 of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998 provides for the conduct of a maintained school to be under the direction of the school's governing body.

Curriculum

Mr. Simmonds: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what plans she has to allow 12 to 13-year-old pupils to drop history and geography as part of the curriculum. [11545]

Mr. Timms: The last national curriculum review reaffirmed the position of history and geography as statutory subjects for all key stage three pupils. History

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fires pupils' curiosity about the past in Britain and the wider world. Geography provokes and answers questions about the natural and human worlds, developing pupils' knowledge of places and environments throughout the world.

A major focus of our drive to raise standards for pupils in the first years of secondary school is the key stage 3 strategy. This will eventually impact across all subjects in the curriculum, including history and geography, through the programme for teaching and learning in the foundation subjects, which we are currently piloting.

School Cleanliness

Mr. Blizzard: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what steps she is taking to monitor the cleanliness of schools. [11588]

Mr. Timms: Cleanliness in schools is a matter for local education authorities and governing bodies, as they have duties as employers to ensure that school premises meet health and safety requirements.

Free School Meals

Helen Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills in each LEA how many and what proportion of secondary school pupils received free school meals; how many pupils received free school meals and what proportion of the intake this represents at each specialist school within the LEA, at the latest date for which information is available. [11628]

Mr. Timms: Information showing free school meals data for specialist and other secondary schools by local education authority is contained in the table.

Number of pupils eligible for free school meals in specialist secondary schools and other maintained secondary schools, January 2001, by Government office region

Specialist secondary schools Other maintained secondary schools

Number of schools Number of day pupils Number of pupils eligible for FSM Percentage of pupils eligible for FSM Number of schools Number of day pupils Number of pupils eligible for FSM Percentage of pupils eligible for FSM

England 676 769,973 112,865 14.7 2,805 2,457,000 396,811 16.2

North East

Hartlepool 2 2,409 476 19.8 4 4,270 1,250 29.3

Middlesbrough 2 2,119 753 35.5 9 6,453 2,317 35.9

Redcar and Cleveland⁽¹⁵⁾ — — — — — — — —

Stockton-on-Tees 4 5,070 674 13.3 9 7,723 1,883 24.4

Darlington 3 2,953 368 12.5 4 3,056 581 19.0

Durham 13 13,116 2,075 15.8 23 19,042 3,687 19.4

Northumberland 8 8,014 766 9.6 52 22,464 2,927 13.0

Gateshead 5 7,025 930 13.2 5 5,018 1,676 33.4

Newcastle upon Tyne 7 10,140 2,196 21.7 14 7,931 2,377 30.0

North Tyneside 4 3,521 831 23.6 16 10,653 1,667 15.6

South Tyneside 2 2,680 527 19.7 9 7,828 2,008 25.7

Sunderland 4 4,823 1,046 21.7 13 15,014 4,910 32.7

North West

Halton 2 2,017 396 19.6 7 6,671 1,687 25.3

Warrington 3 4,192 316 7.5 9 9,641 1,084 11.2

Cheshire 6 5,654 671 11.9 39 40,585 3,934 9.7

Cumbria 9 8,533 1,133 13.3 33 25,134 3,034 12.1

Bolton 4 5,363 321 6.0 12 13,782 2,652 19.2

Bury 0 0 0 0.0 14 11,731 1,754 15.0

Manchester 7 8,229 3,110 37.8 16 15,248 7,176 47.1

Oldham 2 2,398 671 28.0 13 14,427 3,022 20.9

Rochdale 4 4,583 1,054 23.0 10 9,571 2,511 26.2

Salford 2 1,874 169 9.0 14 10,650 3,040 28.5

Stockport 2 2,791 469 16.8 12 13,784 1,856 13.5

Tameside 2 2,357 593 25.2 16 13,011 2,503 19.2

Trafford 5 5,000 1,161 23.2 13 10,846 1,280 11.8

Wigan 7 7,716 910 11.8 14 13,139 2,146 16.3

Blackburn with Darwen 2 2,143 448 20.9 7 7,358 2,021 27.5

Blackpool 2 2,204 397 18.0 6 5,620 1,324 23.6

Lancashire 17 16,642 1,350 8.1 72 58,172 9,832 16.9

Knowsley 3 3,160 1,226 38.8 8 7,080 3,386 47.8

Liverpool 9 10,775 2,781 25.8 24 22,701 9,282 40.9

St. Helens 3 4,167 649 15.6 9 7,992 1,682 21.0

Sefton 3 3,893 493 12.7 19 16,783 3,600 21.5

Wirral 5 5,759 1,452 25.2 18 18,422 5,004 27.2

Yorkshire and the Humber

East Riding of Yorkshire 5 7,333 527 7.2 13 15,294 1,416 9.3

Kingston upon Hull, City of 3 4,446 807 18.2 13 11,566 3,517 30.4

North East Lincolnshire 3 3,264 850 26.0 9 8,471 1,571 18.5

North Lincolnshire 3 2,933 428 14.6 11 7,716 1,007 13.1

York 4 4,929 295 6.0 7 5,045 592 11.7

North Yorkshire 8 8,703 445 5.1 39 31,513 2,134 6.8

Barnsley⁽¹⁵⁾ — — — — — — — —

Doncaster 0 0 0 0.0 17 21,378 3,829 17.9

Rotherham 4 4,910 648 13.2 13 14,935 2,497 16.7

Sheffield 8 9,596 1,371 14.3 19 20,265 4,603 22.7

Bradford 8 12,539 2,869 22.9 19 21,675 6,291 29.0

Calderdale⁽¹⁵⁾ — — — — — — — —

Kirklees 6 6,073 921 15.2 26 20,242 3,823 18.9

Leeds 8 9,799 1,444 14.7 35 37,369 7,038 18.8

Wakefield 5 6,758 1,283 19.0 13 14,521 2,336 16.1

East Midlands

Derby 3 3,739 458 12.2 11 11,009 2,518 22.9

Derbyshire 10 11,201 869 7.8 37 36,627 4,240 11.6

Leicester 5 5,436 1,389 25.6 11 12,598 2,638 20.9

Rutland⁽¹⁵⁾ — — — — — — — —

Leicestershire 9 12,977 822 6.3 45 31,682 2,259 7.1

Lincolnshire 15 14,151 1,089 7.7 48 29,842 2,606 8.7

Northamptonshire 12 14,933 909 6.1 48 34,259 4,376 12.8

Nottingham 2 2,115 690 32.6 18 11,795 4,478 38.0

Nottinghamshire 4 5,927 830 14.0 54 49,053 6,148 12.5

West Midlands

Herefordshire 2 2,032 99 4.9 12 7,792 680 8.7

Worcestershire 7 7,638 801 10.5 54 32,670 3,339 10.2

Telford and Wrekin 2 1,521 204 13.4 111 8,657 1,829 21.1

Shropshire 4 4,075 288 7.1 18 13,531 1,134 8.4

Stoke-on-Trent 3 2,870 623 21.7 14 11,962 2,980 24.9

Staffordshire 4 5,348 478 8.9 65 55,586 5,147 9.3

Warwickshire 5 5,108 427 8.4 32 27,550 2,066 7.5

Birmingham 26 25,401 8,061 31.7 51 43,638 14,826 34.0

Coventry 4 5,091 1,074 21.1 15 15,872 3,149 19.8

Dudley⁽¹⁵⁾ — — — — — — — —

Sandwell 3 3,240 1,052 32.5 17 16,292 3,688 22.6

Solihull 2 2,398 60 2.5 11 13,188 1,815 13.8

Walsall 3 3,476 682 19.6 17 17,908 2,991 16.7

Wolverhampton 5 4,695 768 16.4 13 11,846 2,942 24.8

East of England

Luton 2 2,449 367 15.0 10 9,628 2,884 30.0

Bedfordshire⁽¹⁵⁾ — — — — — — — —

Peterborough 2 2,583 372 14.4 11 10,378 1,899 18.3

Cambridgeshire 10 10,629 719 6.8 21 20,394 1,706 8.4

Southend-on-Sea 3 2,840 367 12.9 9 8,527 1,122 13.2

Thurrock⁽¹⁵⁾ — — — — — — — —

Essex 19 24,000 2,336 9.7 60 62,251 6,265 10.1

Hertfordshire 11 10,956 522 4.8 75 64,868 5,083 7.8

Norfolk 12 13,198 1,343 10.2 40 31,185 3,416 11.0

Suffolk 12 12,538 1,053 8.4 66 40,495 4,513 11.1

London

Inner London

City of London 0 0 0 0.0 0 0 0 0.0

Camden 4 4,545 1,254 27.6 6 6,325 1,883 29.8

Hackney 5 4,411 2,061 46.7 4 3,510 1,453 41.4

Hammersmith and Fulham⁽¹⁵⁾ — — — — — — — —

Haringey⁽¹⁵⁾ — — — — — — — —

Islington 2 1,815 904 49.8 7 5,768 2,557 44.3

Kensington and Chelsea 0 0 0 0.0 4 3,665 1,164 31.8

Lambeth 3 2,398 940 39.2 7 4,815 2,071 43.0

Lewisham 0 0 0 0.0 13 11,661 4,621 39.6

Newham 5 6,667 2,662 39.9 10 10,802 5,177 47.9

Southwark 2 1,844 1,029 55.8 11 8,377 4,372 52.2

Tower Hamlets 4 4,050 3,005 74.2 11 10,037 6,168 61.5

Wandsworth 5 6,397 1,601 25.0 4 3,551 1,069 30.1

Westminster 2 1,777 556 31.3 6 6,244 2,079 33.3

Outer London

Barking and Dagenham 3 3,709 746 20.1 5 7,370 2,133 28.9

Barnet 3 3,502 623 17.8 18 17,571 2,682 15.3

Bexley⁽¹⁵⁾ — — — — — — — —

Brent 4 3,848 856 22.2 9 10,632 2,698 25.4

Bromley 5 6,274 589 9.4 12 14,964 1,915 12.8

Croydon⁽¹⁵⁾ — — — — — — — —

Ealing 5 6,164 1,756 28.5 8 7,776 2,599 33.4

Enfield 0 0 0 0.0 17 20,530 4,172 20.3

Greenwich 5 5,767 2,125 36.8 9 8,067 2,521 31.3

Harrow 0 0 0 0.0 10 8,874 1,556 17.5

Havering 2 2,068 239 11.6 16 13,836 1,527 11.0

Hillingdon 3 3,869 356 9.2 14 12,603 2,084 16.5

Hounslow 2 2,526 371 14.7 12 13,766 2,842 20.6

Kingston upon Thames 0 0 0 0.0 10 8,639 790 9.1

Merton 0 0 0 0.0 11 7,754 1,262 16.3

Redbridge 5 6,301 1,318 20.9 11 12,567 1,547 12.3

Richmond upon Thames 0 0 0 0.0 8 7,531 1,180 15.7

Sutton⁽¹⁵⁾ — — — — — — — —

Waltham Forest 3 2,997 514 17.2 13 9,983 3,373 33.8

South East

Bracknell Forest 0 0 0 0.0 6 6,022 289 4.8

Windsor and Maidenhead 0 0 0 0.0 13 10,207 573 5.6

West Berkshire 6 7,037 391 5.6 4 4,710 165 3.5

Reading⁽¹⁵⁾ — — — — — — — —

Slough 2 1,483 285 19.2 9 6,442 945 14.7

Wokingham 2 2,190 61 2.8 7 8,568 448 5.2

Milton Keynes 4 4,465 466 10.4 7 7,593 972 12.8

Buckinghamshire 9 9,165 314 3.4 25 24,051 1,900 7.9

Brighton and Hove 2 2,872 385 13.4 8 9,154 1,727 18.9

East Sussex 7 8,687 1,010 11.6 19 19,120 2,625 13.7

Portsmouth⁽¹⁵⁾ — — — — — — — —

Southampton 0 0 0 0.0 14 12,235 2,110 17.2

Hampshire 7 8,633 456 5.3 64 61,931 4,172 6.7

Isle of Wight 2 2,356 317 13.5 19 9,564 1,672 17.5

Kent 13 13,541 1,108 8.2 92 79,451 8,001 10.1

Medway 4 4,363 333 7.6 16 15,474 1,617 10.4

Oxfordshire 8 10,697 798 7.5 37 27,574 2,843 10.3

Surrey 12 15,901 661 4.2 41 40,323 2,788 6.9

West Sussex 8 11,486 493 4.3 31 31,332 2,469 7.9

South West

Bath and North East Somerset 5 5,219 339 6.5 8 7,054 630 8.9

Bristol, City of 3 3,082 489 15.9 17 14,825 3,180 21.5

North Somerset 5 5,891 547 9.3 5 6,378 411 6.4

South Gloucestershire 3 4,474 278 6.2 11 11,968 960 8.0

Cornwall 12 13,683 1,637 12.0 19 18,318 2,268 12.4

Isles of Scilly 0 0 0 0.0 1 95 6 6.3

Torbay⁽¹⁵⁾ — — — — — — — —

Plymouth 6 6,786 1,135 16.7 12 12,043 1,494 12.4

Devon 6 9,010 777 8.6 31 30,793 3,290 10.7

Bournemouth 3 3,802 269 7.1 7 5,968 774 13.0

Poole 2 2,321 109 4.7 7 5,876 483 8.2

Dorset 7 7,409 489 6.6 30 21,836 1,318 6.0

Gloucestershire 13 13,729 792 5.8 29 24,436 1,883 7.7

Somerset 8 6,966 585 8.4 31 23,821 2,188 9.2

Swindon 2 2,358 358 15.2 8 9,203 726 7.9

Wiltshire 9 9,571 685 7.2 25 18,460 1,143 6.2

	Specialist secondary schools	Other maintained secondary schools
	Number of schools	Number of day pupils	Number of pupils eligible for FSM	Percentage of pupils eligible for FSM	Number of schools	Number of day pupils	Number of pupils eligible for FSM	Percentage of pupils eligible for FSM
England	676	769,973	112,865	14.7	2,805	2,457,000	396,811	16.2

North East
Hartlepool	2	2,409	476	19.8	4	4,270	1,250	29.3
Middlesbrough	2	2,119	753	35.5	9	6,453	2,317	35.9
Redcar and Cleveland⁽¹⁵⁾	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Stockton-on-Tees	4	5,070	674	13.3	9	7,723	1,883	24.4
Darlington	3	2,953	368	12.5	4	3,056	581	19.0
Durham	13	13,116	2,075	15.8	23	19,042	3,687	19.4
Northumberland	8	8,014	766	9.6	52	22,464	2,927	13.0
Gateshead	5	7,025	930	13.2	5	5,018	1,676	33.4
Newcastle upon Tyne	7	10,140	2,196	21.7	14	7,931	2,377	30.0
North Tyneside	4	3,521	831	23.6	16	10,653	1,667	15.6
South Tyneside	2	2,680	527	19.7	9	7,828	2,008	25.7
Sunderland	4	4,823	1,046	21.7	13	15,014	4,910	32.7

North West
Halton	2	2,017	396	19.6	7	6,671	1,687	25.3
Warrington	3	4,192	316	7.5	9	9,641	1,084	11.2
Cheshire	6	5,654	671	11.9	39	40,585	3,934	9.7
Cumbria	9	8,533	1,133	13.3	33	25,134	3,034	12.1
Bolton	4	5,363	321	6.0	12	13,782	2,652	19.2
Bury	0	0	0	0.0	14	11,731	1,754	15.0
Manchester	7	8,229	3,110	37.8	16	15,248	7,176	47.1
Oldham	2	2,398	671	28.0	13	14,427	3,022	20.9
Rochdale	4	4,583	1,054	23.0	10	9,571	2,511	26.2
Salford	2	1,874	169	9.0	14	10,650	3,040	28.5
Stockport	2	2,791	469	16.8	12	13,784	1,856	13.5
Tameside	2	2,357	593	25.2	16	13,011	2,503	19.2
Trafford	5	5,000	1,161	23.2	13	10,846	1,280	11.8
Wigan	7	7,716	910	11.8	14	13,139	2,146	16.3
Blackburn with Darwen	2	2,143	448	20.9	7	7,358	2,021	27.5
Blackpool	2	2,204	397	18.0	6	5,620	1,324	23.6
Lancashire	17	16,642	1,350	8.1	72	58,172	9,832	16.9
Knowsley	3	3,160	1,226	38.8	8	7,080	3,386	47.8
Liverpool	9	10,775	2,781	25.8	24	22,701	9,282	40.9
St. Helens	3	4,167	649	15.6	9	7,992	1,682	21.0
Sefton	3	3,893	493	12.7	19	16,783	3,600	21.5
Wirral	5	5,759	1,452	25.2	18	18,422	5,004	27.2

Yorkshire and the Humber
East Riding of Yorkshire	5	7,333	527	7.2	13	15,294	1,416	9.3
Kingston upon Hull, City of	3	4,446	807	18.2	13	11,566	3,517	30.4
North East Lincolnshire	3	3,264	850	26.0	9	8,471	1,571	18.5
North Lincolnshire	3	2,933	428	14.6	11	7,716	1,007	13.1
York	4	4,929	295	6.0	7	5,045	592	11.7
North Yorkshire	8	8,703	445	5.1	39	31,513	2,134	6.8
Barnsley⁽¹⁵⁾	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Doncaster	0	0	0	0.0	17	21,378	3,829	17.9
Rotherham	4	4,910	648	13.2	13	14,935	2,497	16.7
Sheffield	8	9,596	1,371	14.3	19	20,265	4,603	22.7
Bradford	8	12,539	2,869	22.9	19	21,675	6,291	29.0
Calderdale⁽¹⁵⁾	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Kirklees	6	6,073	921	15.2	26	20,242	3,823	18.9
Leeds	8	9,799	1,444	14.7	35	37,369	7,038	18.8
Wakefield	5	6,758	1,283	19.0	13	14,521	2,336	16.1

East Midlands
Derby	3	3,739	458	12.2	11	11,009	2,518	22.9
Derbyshire	10	11,201	869	7.8	37	36,627	4,240	11.6
Leicester	5	5,436	1,389	25.6	11	12,598	2,638	20.9
Rutland⁽¹⁵⁾	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Leicestershire	9	12,977	822	6.3	45	31,682	2,259	7.1
Lincolnshire	15	14,151	1,089	7.7	48	29,842	2,606	8.7
Northamptonshire	12	14,933	909	6.1	48	34,259	4,376	12.8
Nottingham	2	2,115	690	32.6	18	11,795	4,478	38.0
Nottinghamshire	4	5,927	830	14.0	54	49,053	6,148	12.5
West Midlands
Herefordshire	2	2,032	99	4.9	12	7,792	680	8.7
Worcestershire	7	7,638	801	10.5	54	32,670	3,339	10.2
Telford and Wrekin	2	1,521	204	13.4	111	8,657	1,829	21.1
Shropshire	4	4,075	288	7.1	18	13,531	1,134	8.4
Stoke-on-Trent	3	2,870	623	21.7	14	11,962	2,980	24.9
Staffordshire	4	5,348	478	8.9	65	55,586	5,147	9.3
Warwickshire	5	5,108	427	8.4	32	27,550	2,066	7.5
Birmingham	26	25,401	8,061	31.7	51	43,638	14,826	34.0
Coventry	4	5,091	1,074	21.1	15	15,872	3,149	19.8
Dudley⁽¹⁵⁾	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Sandwell	3	3,240	1,052	32.5	17	16,292	3,688	22.6
Solihull	2	2,398	60	2.5	11	13,188	1,815	13.8
Walsall	3	3,476	682	19.6	17	17,908	2,991	16.7
Wolverhampton	5	4,695	768	16.4	13	11,846	2,942	24.8

East of England
Luton	2	2,449	367	15.0	10	9,628	2,884	30.0
Bedfordshire⁽¹⁵⁾	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Peterborough	2	2,583	372	14.4	11	10,378	1,899	18.3
Cambridgeshire	10	10,629	719	6.8	21	20,394	1,706	8.4
Southend-on-Sea	3	2,840	367	12.9	9	8,527	1,122	13.2
Thurrock⁽¹⁵⁾	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Essex	19	24,000	2,336	9.7	60	62,251	6,265	10.1
Hertfordshire	11	10,956	522	4.8	75	64,868	5,083	7.8
Norfolk	12	13,198	1,343	10.2	40	31,185	3,416	11.0
Suffolk	12	12,538	1,053	8.4	66	40,495	4,513	11.1
London
Inner London
City of London	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0.0
Camden	4	4,545	1,254	27.6	6	6,325	1,883	29.8
Hackney	5	4,411	2,061	46.7	4	3,510	1,453	41.4
Hammersmith and Fulham⁽¹⁵⁾	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Haringey⁽¹⁵⁾	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Islington	2	1,815	904	49.8	7	5,768	2,557	44.3
Kensington and Chelsea	0	0	0	0.0	4	3,665	1,164	31.8
Lambeth	3	2,398	940	39.2	7	4,815	2,071	43.0
Lewisham	0	0	0	0.0	13	11,661	4,621	39.6
Newham	5	6,667	2,662	39.9	10	10,802	5,177	47.9
Southwark	2	1,844	1,029	55.8	11	8,377	4,372	52.2
Tower Hamlets	4	4,050	3,005	74.2	11	10,037	6,168	61.5
Wandsworth	5	6,397	1,601	25.0	4	3,551	1,069	30.1
Westminster	2	1,777	556	31.3	6	6,244	2,079	33.3

Outer London
Barking and Dagenham	3	3,709	746	20.1	5	7,370	2,133	28.9
Barnet	3	3,502	623	17.8	18	17,571	2,682	15.3
Bexley⁽¹⁵⁾	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Brent	4	3,848	856	22.2	9	10,632	2,698	25.4
Bromley	5	6,274	589	9.4	12	14,964	1,915	12.8
Croydon⁽¹⁵⁾	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Ealing	5	6,164	1,756	28.5	8	7,776	2,599	33.4
Enfield	0	0	0	0.0	17	20,530	4,172	20.3
Greenwich	5	5,767	2,125	36.8	9	8,067	2,521	31.3
Harrow	0	0	0	0.0	10	8,874	1,556	17.5
Havering	2	2,068	239	11.6	16	13,836	1,527	11.0
Hillingdon	3	3,869	356	9.2	14	12,603	2,084	16.5
Hounslow	2	2,526	371	14.7	12	13,766	2,842	20.6
Kingston upon Thames	0	0	0	0.0	10	8,639	790	9.1
Merton	0	0	0	0.0	11	7,754	1,262	16.3
Redbridge	5	6,301	1,318	20.9	11	12,567	1,547	12.3
Richmond upon Thames	0	0	0	0.0	8	7,531	1,180	15.7
Sutton⁽¹⁵⁾	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Waltham Forest	3	2,997	514	17.2	13	9,983	3,373	33.8

South East
Bracknell Forest	0	0	0	0.0	6	6,022	289	4.8
Windsor and Maidenhead	0	0	0	0.0	13	10,207	573	5.6
West Berkshire	6	7,037	391	5.6	4	4,710	165	3.5
Reading⁽¹⁵⁾	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Slough	2	1,483	285	19.2	9	6,442	945	14.7
Wokingham	2	2,190	61	2.8	7	8,568	448	5.2
Milton Keynes	4	4,465	466	10.4	7	7,593	972	12.8
Buckinghamshire	9	9,165	314	3.4	25	24,051	1,900	7.9
Brighton and Hove	2	2,872	385	13.4	8	9,154	1,727	18.9
East Sussex	7	8,687	1,010	11.6	19	19,120	2,625	13.7
Portsmouth⁽¹⁵⁾	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Southampton	0	0	0	0.0	14	12,235	2,110	17.2
Hampshire	7	8,633	456	5.3	64	61,931	4,172	6.7
Isle of Wight	2	2,356	317	13.5	19	9,564	1,672	17.5
Kent	13	13,541	1,108	8.2	92	79,451	8,001	10.1
Medway	4	4,363	333	7.6	16	15,474	1,617	10.4
Oxfordshire	8	10,697	798	7.5	37	27,574	2,843	10.3
Surrey	12	15,901	661	4.2	41	40,323	2,788	6.9
West Sussex	8	11,486	493	4.3	31	31,332	2,469	7.9

South West
Bath and North East Somerset	5	5,219	339	6.5	8	7,054	630	8.9
Bristol, City of	3	3,082	489	15.9	17	14,825	3,180	21.5
North Somerset	5	5,891	547	9.3	5	6,378	411	6.4
South Gloucestershire	3	4,474	278	6.2	11	11,968	960	8.0
Cornwall	12	13,683	1,637	12.0	19	18,318	2,268	12.4
Isles of Scilly	0	0	0	0.0	1	95	6	6.3
Torbay⁽¹⁵⁾	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Plymouth	6	6,786	1,135	16.7	12	12,043	1,494	12.4
Devon	6	9,010	777	8.6	31	30,793	3,290	10.7
Bournemouth	3	3,802	269	7.1	7	5,968	774	13.0
Poole	2	2,321	109	4.7	7	5,876	483	8.2
Dorset	7	7,409	489	6.6	30	21,836	1,318	6.0
Gloucestershire	13	13,729	792	5.8	29	24,436	1,883	7.7
Somerset	8	6,966	585	8.4	31	23,821	2,188	9.2
Swindon	2	2,358	358	15.2	8	9,203	726	7.9
Wiltshire	9	9,571	685	7.2	25	18,460	1,143	6.2

⁽¹⁵⁾ These local education authorities only have one specialist school. It is departmental policy not to release individual school level information unless the school has had the opportunity to check or confirm that information. Schools have not had the opportunity to check their free school meals data.

5 Nov 2001 : Column: 51W

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