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Infant Classes

Dr. Evan Harris: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many children under the age of five years are being taught in infant classes in primary education, broken down by local education authority. [74282]

Mr. Miliband: The available information for maintained primary schools is shown in the table along with, for completeness, figures for under 5's in maintained nursery schools and classes.

Number of Three and Four Year Olds ^{1 , 2} in Maintained Nursery and Primary Schools January 2002 (Provisional)

	Pupils in nursery schools and nursery classes	Pupils in infant classes in primary schools 3	All pupils under 5 in nursery and primary schools
ENGLAND	341,221	357,496	698,717
NORTH EAST	28,990	19,452	48,442
Darlington	1,214	798	2,012
Durham	5,279	3,686	8,965
Gateshead	1,837	1,422	3,259
Hartlepool	1,248	740	1,988
Middlesbrough	2,166	1,185	3,351
Newcastle upon Tyne	2,488	1,860	4,348
North Tyneside	2,336	1,499	3,835
Northumberland	2,880	2,410	5,290
Redcar and Cleveland	2,031	1,077	3,108
South Tyneside	1,821	1,184	3,005
Stockton-on-Tees	2,330	1,451	3,781
Sunderland	3,360	2,140	5,500
NORTH WEST	54,226	53,532	107,758
Blackburn with Darwen	1,363	1,358	2,721
Blackpool	428	1,094	1,522
Bolton	2,721	2,215	4,936
Bury	1,527	1,390	2,917
Cheshire	3,073	4,999	8,072
Cumbria	3,314	3,520	6,834
Halton	815	937	1,752
Knowsley	2,438	1,309	3,747
Lancashire	5,817	8,737	14,554
Liverpool	4,756	3,390	8,146
Manchester	5,368	3,448	8,816
Oldham	2,198	2,075	4,273
Rochdale	1,904	1,778	3,682
Salford	2,442	1,863	4,305
Sefton	2,566	2,118	4,684
St. Helens	1,479	1,414	2,893
Stockport	2,378	2,164	4,542
Tameside	2,173	1,820	3,993
Trafford	2,120	1,620	3,740
Warrington	1,253	1,558	2,811
Wigan	1,986	2,342	4,328
Wirral	2,107	2,383	4,490
YORKSHIRE AND THE HUMBER	48,330	35,763	84,093
Barnsley	3,010	796	3,806
Bradford	6,333	4,130	10,463
Calderdale	1,678	1,652	3,330
Doncaster	3,225	2,412	5,637
East Riding of Yorkshire	2,012	1,838	3,850
Kingston Upon Hull, City of	3,285	1,359	4,644
Kirklees	3,463	3,348	6,811
Leeds	7,224	5,532	12,756
North East Lincolnshire	1,700	949	2,649
North Lincolnshire	1,283	921	2,204
North Yorkshire	2,460	4,188	6,648
Rotherham	2,667	2,048	4,715
Sheffield	4,502	3,770	8,272
Wakefield	4,458	1,635	6,093
York	1,030	1,185	2,215
EAST MIDLANDS	30,966	27,738	58,704
Derby	2,708	1,709	4,417
Derbyshire	5,611	5,355	10,966
Leicester	3,898	1,750	5,648
Leicestershire	224	4,746	4,970
Lincolnshire	2,461	5,003	7,464
Northamptonshire	3,281	5,051	8,332
Nottingham	4,671	774	5,445
Nottinghamshire	8,009	3,126	11,135
Rutland	103	224	327
WEST MIDLANDS	42,930	42,478	85,408
Birmingham	10,047	9,236	19,283
Coventry	2,677	2,439	5,116
Dudley	2,959	2,481	5,440
Herefordshire	570	1,177	1,747
Sandwell	4,086	2,578	6,664
Shropshire	1,333	1,064	2,397
Solihull	2,127	1,737	3,864
Staffordshire	3,665	7,284	10,949
Stoke-on-Trent	2,492	1,883	4,375
Telford and Wrekin	1,527	665	2,192
Walsall	3,911	2,225	6,136
Warwickshire	2,054	3,774	5,828
Wolverhampton	3,411	1,934	5,345
Worcestershire	2,071	4,001	6,072
EAST OF ENGLAND	28,564	38,233	66,797
Bedfordshire	2,564	2,713	5,277
Cambridgeshire	1,715	4,112	5,827
Essex	3,770	8,569	12,339
Hertfordshire	10,198	8,523	18,721
Luton	1,631	1,527	3,158
Norfolk	2,703	5,563	8,266
Peterborough	427	1,437	1,864
Southend-on-Sea	769	1,283	2,052
Suffolk	3,746	3,548	7,294
Thurrock	1,041	958	1,999
LONDON	70,921	51,725	122,646
INNER LONDON	30,812	19,887	50,699
Camden	1,270	988	2,258
City of London	...	...	...
Hackney	2,254	1,571	3,825
Hammersmith and Fulham	1,762	540	2,302
Haringey	2,736	1,959	4,695
Islington	1,778	1,358	3,136
Kensington and Chelsea	891	611	1,502
Lambeth	2,635	1,718	4,353
Lewisham	2,698	1,894	4,592
Newham	4,771	2,779	7,550
Southwark	3,109	2,116	5,225
Tower Hamlets	3,209	1,958	5,167
Wandsworth	2,208	1,587	3,795
Westminster	1,491	808	2,299
OUTER LONDON	40,109	31,838	71,947
Barking and Dagenham	2,150	1,635	3,785
Barnet	2,577	2,244	4,821
Bexley	1,925	1,822	3,747
Brent	2,480	1,962	4,442
Bromley	342	2,337	2,679
Croydon	2,902	2,646	5,548
Ealing	3,590	2,293	5,883
Enfield	1,928	2,427	4,355
Greenwich	3,273	1,078	4,351
Harrow	1,076	1,533	2,609
Havering	948	1,764	2,712
Hillingdon	3,383	2,002	5,385
Hounslow	2,205	1,708	3,913
Kingston upon Thames	1,311	989	2,300
Merton	2,037	1,234	3,271
Redbridge	2,491	1,940	4,431
Richmond upon Thames	840	1,121	1,961
Sutton	1,844	53	1,897
Waltham Forest	2,807	1,050	3,857
SOUTH EAST	23,843	52,900	76,743
Bracknell Forest	767	243	1,010
Brighton and Hove	1,127	1,577	2,704
Buckinghamshire	1,364	3,661	5,025
East Sussex	775	3,433	4,208
Hampshire	785	9,278	10,063
Isle of Wight	158	894	1,052
Kent	1,914	10,573	12,487
Medway	589	2,202	2,791
Milton Keynes	783	1,670	2,453
Oxfordshire	3,567	1,765	5,332
Portsmouth	611	1,379	1,990
Reading	1,759	156	1,915
Slough	1,740	736	2,476
Southampton	473	1,575	2,048
Surrey	3,568	7,312	10,880
West Berkshire	840	752	1,592
West Sussex	1,169	5,194	6,363
Windsor and Maidenhead	1,045	97	1,142
Wokingham	809	403	1,212
SOUTH WEST	12,451	35,675	48,126
Bath and North East Somerset	385	1,199	1,584
Bournemouth	350	1,019	1,369
Bristol, City of	3,553	2,787	6,340
Cornwall	1,652	3,637	5,289
Devon	1,899	4,628	6,527
Dorset	290	2,482	2,772
Gloucestershire	124	4,102	4,226
Isles of Scilly	0	15	15
North Somerset	262	1,334	1,596
Plymouth	984	1,837	2,821
Poole	131	925	1,056
Somerset	655	3,694	4,349
South Gloucestershire	473	2,144	2,617
Swindon	605	1,610	2,215
Torbay	661	857	1,518
Wiltshire	427	3,405	3,832

Notes:

1Headcount of children aged three and four at 31st December in the previous calendar year.

2Includes two year olds.

3Includes reception and other classes not designated as nursery classes

... Not available. Data not reported by City of London Local Education Authority.

Source:

Annual Schools Census

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University Tuition Fees

Mr. Wray: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how much university tuition fees are what they will be next year; and what plans she has to increase this amount. [73382]

Margaret Hodge: In the academic year 2002/03, the maximum student contribution towards tuition fees for full-time undergraduates in England and Wales attending courses at publicly funded institutions of higher education is #1,100. This represents a 2.4 per cent. increase over the corresponding fee rate for the previous year. Fee rates are uprated annually on the basis of price inflation; those for 2003/04 are due to be announced in December.

Student Finance

Mr. Boswell: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, when she will publish her review of student finance. [74668]

Margaret Hodge [holding answer 15 October 2002]: We plan to publish our review of student finance later in the Autumn, as part of the strategy document setting out our 10-year vision for the development and reform of higher education.

Skills Council

Mr. Boswell: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what plans she has to create a sector skills council for the voluntary sector. [74638]

Mr. Ivan Lewis [holding answer 15 October 2002]: The Sector Skills Development Agency is responsible for discussing and assessing proposals for Sector Skills Councils made by employers. The Agency then advises government about the award of a Sector Skills Council licence having fully considered the strength of the proposal in meeting the rigorous Sector Skills Council standard. Discussions are currently taking place between voluntary sector representatives and the Agency about the prospect of a strong proposal for a Sector Skills Council or what alternative arrangements might better serve this broad sector.

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