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EDUCATION AND SKILLS

Children (Residential Care)

Mr. Sanders: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many children were placed in residential care by each local authority in the last year for which figures are available. [167135]

Margaret Hodge: The number of children in residential care in each local authority at 31 March 2003 is shown in the following table.
Children looked after at 31 March 2003 in residential care1, 2, 3

Number
England8,400
North East
Shire Counties
Durham55
Northumberland50
Unitary Authorities
Darlington20
Hartlepool10
Middlesbrough35
Redcar and Cleveland20
Stockton on Tees35
Metropolitan Districts
Gateshead30
Newcastle Upon Tyne40
North Tyneside35
South Tyneside30
Sunderland70
North West
Shire Counties
Cheshire50
Cumbria45
Lancashire220
Unitary Authorities
Blackburn and Darwen30
Blackpool30
Halton20
Warrington15
Metropolitan Districts
Bolton40
Bury20
Knowsley30
Liverpool175
Manchester185
Oldham45
Rochdale35
Salford105
Sefton100
St. Helens45
Stockport55
Tameside45
Trafford45
Wigan55
Wirral75
Yorkshire and The Humber
Shire Counties
North Yorkshire45
Unitary Authorities
East Riding Yorkshire35
Kingston Upon Hull85
North East Lincolnshire30
North Lincolnshire35
York20
Metropolitan Districts
Barnsley45
Bradford110
Calderdale30
Doncaster45
Kirklees55
Leeds165
Rotherham35
Sheffield100
Wakefield50
East Midlands
Shire Counties
Derbyshire65
Leicestershire40
Lincolnshire50
Northamptonshire75
Nottinghamshire35
Unitary Authorities
Derby50
Leicester40
Nottingham60
Rutland
West Midlands
Shire Counties
Shropshire30
Staffordshire90
Warwickshire35
Worcestershire50
Unitary Authorities
Herefordshire15
Stoke-on-Trent65
Telford and Wrekin30
Metropolitan Districts
Birmingham295
Coventry50
Dudley45
Sandwell50
Solihull30
Walsall60
Wolverhampton35
East of England
Shire Counties
Bedfordshire75
Cambridgeshire45
Essex185
Hertfordshire125
Norfolk135
Suffolk85
Unitary Authorities
Luton35
Peterborough25
Southend30
Thurrock30
London
Inner London
Camden65
City of London
Greenwich80
Hackney60
Hammersmith and Fulham60
Islington115
Kensington and Chelsea50
Lambeth140
Lewisham135
Southwark90
Tower Hamlets65
Wandsworth40
Westminster45
Outer London
Barking and Dagenham95
Barnet60
Bexley20
Brent70
Bromley70
Croydon90
Ealing80
Enfield60
Haringey120
Harrow30
Havering40
Hillingdon65
Hounslow45
Kingston Upon Thames20
Merton20
Newham80
Redbridge25
Richmond Upon Thames25
Sutton20
Waltham Forest95
South East
Shire Counties
Buckinghamshire40
East Sussex45
Hampshire125
Kent120
Oxfordshire65
Surrey135
West Sussex85
Unitary Authorities
Bracknell Forest15
Brighton and Hove35
Isle of Wight10
Medway Towns25
Milton Keynes35
Portsmouth35
Reading25
Slough20
Southampton25
West Berkshire20
Windsor and Maidenhead15
Wokingham10
South West
Shire Counties
Cornwall65
Devon75
Dorset40
Gloucestershire55
Isles of Scilly0
Somerset60
Wiltshire40
Unitary Authorities
Bath and North East Somerset20
Bournemouth30
Bristol75
North Somerset10
Plymouth35
Poole15
South Gloucestershire20
Swindon20
Torbay25


(12)   Residential care includes secure units, homes and hostels, residential schools, and other residential settings.
(13)   Figures in this table exclude children looked after under an agreed series of short-term placements.
(14)   Figures over 1,000 are rounded to the nearest 100. Figures between 1 and 5 have been suppressed. All other figures are rounded to the nearest 5.
Source:
Children Looked After by Local Authorities, Year Ending 31 March 2003.




 
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Pre-school Places

Mr. Pike: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many (a) free nursery and (b) pre-school places were available for (i) three and (ii) four-year-olds in Burnley in each of the last seven years. [167918]

Mr. Hendrick: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many (a) free nursery and (b) pre-school places were available for (i) three and (ii) four-year-olds in Preston in each of the last seven years. [168135]

Margaret Hodge: The information is not available in the form requested.

Figures on the number of free nursery education places taken up by three and four year olds in Lancashire local education authority area are shown in the table.
 
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The latest figures on provision for three and four-year-olds in England were published in a Statistical Bulletin "Provision for children under five years of age in England—January 2003" which is available on the Department's website www.dfes.gov.uk/rsgateway/.

Since the beginning of April 2004, six months ahead of our original target, all three-year-olds in England whose parents want one, are eligible for a free, part-time early education place.
Number of free nursery education places1,2 taken up by three and four-year-old children in maintained nursery and primary schools and private, voluntary and independent providers—Lancashire local education authority area—1997 to 2003

Position in January each year
Three-year-oldsFour-year-olds
19974,40012,400
19984,40013,500
19994,40016,000
20004,30015,900
20019,40015,700
20029,40013,000
200310,10012,600


(15)   Part-time equivalent number of free nursery education places taken up by three and four-year-old children.
(16)   A free nursery education place comprises five two and a half hour sessions of early years education per week, for 33 weeks of the year, usually three terms of 11 weeks.


ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS

Illegal Meat Imports

Mr. Whittingdale: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (1) what estimate she has made of the amount of meat illegally imported into the UK in each of the last 10 years; [160630]

(2) what estimates she has made of the quantity of meat illegally imported into the UK in the last 12 months. [165199]

Mr. Bradshaw: Estimates of the amount of illegal meat imports may be made on the basis of the amount of such meat detected. However prior to 2001 information on seizures of illegal meat imports by enforcement authorities was not collected centrally. In August 2001, Defra set up the first national database to capture data on seizures of illegally imported products of animal origin (POAO).

The Veterinary Laboratories Agency's 'Risk Assessment for the Import of Meat and Meat Products Contaminated with Foot and Mouth Disease Virus into Great Britain and the Subsequent Exposure of GB Livestock', published in-March 2003, used the seizure database to estimate that the total amount of illegal meat entering GB each year is 7,431 tonnes on average, with 90 per cent. certainty that this is between 2,771 and 14,484 tonnes per year.

Information on seizures of illegal imports continues to be collected centrally and will be published in Defra's annual review of controls on imports of animal products.
 
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