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School Closures

Mr. Sanders: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many school closures there were in each local education authority in each year since 2000; and what percentage this represented of the total number of schools in each area. [79553]

Jim Knight: The number of schools closed by local authority during the calendar years 2000 to 2006 are as follow:

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School closures and percentage of school stock by local authority by year
Local authority	Stock as at 2006	2000	% of stock 2000	2001	% of stock 2001	2002	% of stock 2002	2003	% of stock 2003
Barking and Dagenham	58	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Barnet	112	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0
Barnsley	96	0	0	6	6	0	0	0	0
Bath and North East Somerset	77	0	0	2	3	0	0	0	0
Bedfordshire	210	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1
Bexley	76	0	0	3	4	1	1	6	8
Birmingham	403	10	2	3	1	4	1	16	4
Blackburn with Darwen	75	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0
Blackpool	38	0	0	2	5	1	3	0	0
Bolton	119	0	0	0	0	6	5	5	4
Bournemouth	37	1	3	0	0	0	0	2	5
Bracknell Forest	36	0	0	0	0	2	6	0	0
Bradford	195	73	37	0	0	0	0	0	0
Brent	79	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
Brighton and Hove	87	0	0	2	3	0	0	0	0
Bristol City of	149	8	5	0	0	3	2	1	1
Bromley	95	1	1	0	0	0	0	2	2
Buckinghamshire	221	3	1	5	2	7	3	1	0
Bury	78	1	1	0	0	1	1	8	10
Calderdale	100	1	1	0	0	2	2	0	0
Cambridgeshire	240	2	1	2	1	4	2	4	2
Camden	51	2	4	0	0	1	2	0	0
Cheshire	326	5	2	0	0	0	0	6	2
City of London	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Cornwall	272	0	0	2	1	3	1	2	1
Coventry	105	0	0	1	1	6	6	2	2
Croydon	120	2	2	0	0	0	0	2	2
Cumbria	329	2	1	4	1	9	3	2	1
Darlington	39	6	15	0	0	0	0	4	10
Derby	100	3	3	1	1	0	0	1	1
Derbyshire	413	0	0	2	0	4	1	2	0
Devon	357	2	1	0	0	0	0	2	1
Doncaster	120	0	0	4	3	5	4	8	7
Dorset	171	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1
Dudley	105	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0
Durham	291	0	0	0	0	7	2	2	1
Ealing	81	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2
East Riding of Yorkshire	155	0	0	0	0	3	2	1	1
East Sussex	183	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Enfield	84	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0
Essex	556	13	2	11	2	5	1	7	1
Gateshead	87	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0
Gloucestershire	292	6	2	4	1	0	0	0	0
Greenwich	82	2	2	5	6	2	2	0	0
Hackney	66	1	2	1	2	2	3	3	5
Halton	64	0	0	8	13	0	0	0	0
Hammersmith and Fulham	48	0	0	0	0	2	4	2	4
Hampshire	507	1	0	6	1	0	0	0	0
Haringey	77	8	10	0	0	3	4	0	0
Harrow	66	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Hartlepool	37	0	0	1	3	0	0	0	0
Havering	83	2	2	0	0	1	1	1	1
Herefordshire	97	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0
Hertfordshire	505	4	1	12	2	3	1	5	1
Hillingdon	83	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0
Hounslow	74	0	0	9	12	0	0	0	0
Isle of Wight	67	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Isles of Scilly	1	0	0	0	0	5	500	0	0
Islington	57	0	0	1	2	1	2	0	0
Kensington and Chelsea	34	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Kent	576	1	0	2	0	3	1	5	1
Kingston upon Hull City of	95	0	0	4	4	2	2	1	1
Kingston upon Thames	48	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Kirklees	186	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Knowsley	70	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0
Lambeth	75	2	3	5	7	3	4	2	3
Lancashire	600	2	0	6	1	12	2	0	0
Leeds	265	0	0	1	0	5	2	0	0
Leicester	101	0	0	2	2	0	0	0	0
Leicestershire	281	1	0	2	1	0	0	1	0
Lewisham	85	0	0	1	1	0	0	1	1
Lincolnshire	354	0	0	2	1	0	0	0	0
Liverpool	172	3	2	11	6	14	8	12	7
Luton	75	2	3	3	4	0	0	4	5
Manchester	161	7	4	6	4	2	1	4	2
Medway	105	0	0	1	1	2	2	2	2
Merton	51	0	0	0	0	14	27	0	0
Middlesbrough	51	0	0	0	0	6	12	8	16
Milton Keynes	105	4	4	2	2	0	0	1	1
Newcastle upon Tyne	93	0	0	4	4	4	4	0	0
Newham	89	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
Norfolk	440	4	1	3	1	0	0	2	0
North East Lincolnshire	74	2	3	2	3	0	0	2	3
North Lincolnshire	81	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2
North Somerset	75	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
North Tyneside	72	3	4	4	6	4	6	0	0
North Yorkshire	378	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Northamptonshire	318	2	1	3	1	4	1	2	1
Northumberland	198	2	1	0	0	0	0	4	2
Nottingham	114	1	1	2	2	3	3	3	3
Nottinghamshire	346	4	1	37	11	6	2	7	2
Oldham	109	0	0	3	3	6	6	3	3
Oxfordshire	279	1	0	3	1	3	1	14	5
Peterborough	73	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Plymouth	95	2	2	0	0	3	3	0	0
Poole	38	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Portsmouth	64	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Reading	49	1	2	2	4	1	2	0	0
Redbridge	68	1	1	10	15	0	0	0	0
Redcar and Cleveland	58	2	3	3	5	0	0	4	7
Richmond upon Thames	50	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Rochdale	91	0	0	6	7	0	0	0	0
Rotherham	123	0	0	2	2	0	0	2	2
Rutland	20	0	0	1	5	0	0	0	0
Salford	98	13	13	4	4	0	0	0	0
Sandwell	115	3	3	2	2	2	2	0	0
Sefton	106	1	1	1	1	1	1	0	0
Sheffield	171	3	2	0	0	8	5	5	3
Shropshire	165	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0
Slough	43	2	5	2	5	0	0	0	0
Solihull	81	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	1
Somerset	262	0	0	2	1	0	0	0	0
South Gloucestershire	112	0	0	2	2	0	0	0	0
South Tyneside	67	3	4	0	0	2	3	7	10
Southampton	78	6	8	0	0	0	0	4	5
Southend-on-Sea	49	0	0	2	4	0	0	4	8
Southwark	91	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	1
St. Helens	68	2	3	0	0	2	3	0	0
Staffordshire	380	2	1	0	0	2	1	1	0
Stockport	115	2	2	2	2	0	0	0	0
Stockton-on-Tees	75	0	0	2	3	3	4	0	0
Stoke-on-Trent	95	4	4	4	4	5	5	5	5
Suffolk	333	1	0	0	0	2	1	0	0
Sunderland	111	0	0	5	5	7	6	1	1
Surrey	375	1	0	7	2	3	1	3	1
Sutton	57	0	0	0	0	1	2	2	4
Swindon	77	10	13	0	0	0	0	0	0
Tameside	94	0	0	0	0	4	4	3	3
Telford and Wrekin	77	0	0	2	3	0	0	0	0
Thurrock	53	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	6
Torbay	40	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Tower Hamlets	90	0	0	2	2	4	4	2	2
Trafford	91	0	0	2	2	4	4	0	0
Wakefield	145	1	1	5	3	2	1	4	3
Walsall	118	4	3	0	0	0	0	3	3
Waltham Forest	79	0	0	0	0	2	3	7	9
Wandsworth	70	2	3	0	0	0	0	0	0
Warrington	84	1	1	2	2	7	8	0	0
Warwickshire	241	2	1	5	2	0	0	1	0
West Berkshire	78	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
West Sussex	286	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0
Westminster	52	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Wigan	130	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0
Wiltshire	240	0	0	0	0	2	1	3	1
Windsor and Maidenhead	63	1	2	0	0	1	2	0	0
Wirral	125	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0
Wokingham	62	0	0	0	0	2	3	1	2
Wolverhampton	105	6	6	1	1	5	5	0	0
Worcestershire	249	2	1	12	5	0	0	1	0
York	66	5	8	3	5	5	8	0	0
Total Stock/Change	21,360	290	1	302	1	274	1	254	1

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Local authority	2004	% of stock 2004	2005	% of stock 2005	2006	% of stock 2006	Total	% of stock total
Barking and Dagenham	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Barnet	5	4	3	3	0	0	9	8
Barnsley	0	0	7	7	0	0	13	14
Bath and North East Somerset	0	0	6	8	0	0	8	10
Bedfordshire	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1
Bexley	3	4	0	0	0	0	13	17
Birmingham	16	4	6	1	0	0	55	14
Blackburn with Darwen	2	3	2	3	0	0	5	7
Blackpool	0	0	4	11	0	0	7	18
Bolton	2	2	0	0	0	0	13	11
Bournemouth	1	3	0	0	0	0	4	11
Bracknell Forest	2	6	2	6	0	0	6	17
Bradford	0	0	3	2	0	0	76	39
Brent	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
Brighton and Hove	0	0	1	1	0	0	3	4
Bristol City of	1	1	2	1	0	0	15	10
Bromley	1	1	0	0	0	0	4	4
Buckinghamshire	0	0	0	0	0	0	16	7
Bury	2	3	0	0	0	0	12	15
Calderdale	3	3	0	0	0	0	6	6
Cambridgeshire	2	1	0	0	0	0	14	6
Camden	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	6
Cheshire	5	2	7	2	0	0	23	7
City of London	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Cornwall	1	0	4	1	0	0	12	4
Coventry	1	1	2	2	0	0	12	11
Croydon	2	2	2	2	0	0	8	7
Cumbria	4	1	6	2	0	0	27	8
Darlington	5	13	4	10	0	0	19	49
Derby	4	4	0	0	0	0	9	9
Derbyshire	0	0	0	0	0	0	8	2
Devon	2	1	8	2	0	0	14	4
Doncaster	1	1	1	1	0	0	19	16
Dorset	3	2	4	2	0	0	9	5
Dudley	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
Durham	2	1	0	0	0	0	11	4
Ealing	1	1	1	1	0	0	4	5
East Riding of Yorkshire	1	1	2	1	0	0	7	5
East Sussex	0	0	0	0	0	0		0
Enfield	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2
Essex	3	1	1	0	0	0	40	7
Gateshead	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2
Gloucestershire	0	0	4	1	0	0	14	5
Greenwich	2	2	2	2	0	0	13	16
Hackney	0	0	3	5	0	0	10	15
Halton	0	0	0	0	0	0	8	13
Hammersmith and Fulham	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	8
Hampshire	4	1	2	0	0	0	13	3
Haringey	5	6	0	0	0	0	16	21
Harrow	0	0	2	3	0	0	2	3
Hartlepool	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3
Havering	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	5
Herefordshire	0	0	1	1	0	0	2	2
Hertfordshire	3	1	14	3	0	0	41	8
Hillingdon	1	1	3	4	0	0	5	6
Hounslow	0	0	0	0	0	0	9	12
Isle of Wight	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	1
Isles of Scilly	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	500
Islington	3	5	0	0	0	0	5	9
Kensington and Chelsea	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Kent	2	0	7	1	2	0	22	4
Kingston upon Hull City of	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	7
Kingston upon Thames	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Kirklees	0	0	2	1	0	0	2	1
Knowsley	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
Lambeth	0	0	0	0	0	0	12	16
Lancashire	6	1	5	1	0	0	31	5
Leeds	22	8	9	3	0	0	37	14
Leicester	3	3	2	2	0	0	7	7
Leicestershire	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	1
Lewisham	0	0	2	2	0	0	4	5
Lincolnshire	2	1	2	1	0	0	6	2
Liverpool	8	5	1	1	0	0	49	28
Luton	2	3	0	0	0	0	11	15
Manchester	1	1	1	1	0	0	21	13
Medway	0	0	4	4	0	0	9	9
Merton	0	0	0	0	0	0	14	27
Middlesbrough	0	0	1	2	0	0	15	29
Milton Keynes	3	3	0	0	0	0	10	10
Newcastle upon Tyne	1	1	3	3	0	0	12	13
Newham	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
Norfolk	0	0	0	0	0	0	9	2
North East Lincolnshire	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	8
North Lincolnshire	2	2	0	0	0	0	4	5
North Somerset	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
North Tyneside	0	0	0	0	0	0	11	15
North Yorkshire	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0
Northamptonshire	18	6	9	3	0	0	38	12
Northumberland	2	1	5	3	2	1	15	8
Nottingham	2	2	9	8	0	0	20	18
Nottinghamshire	5	1	6	2	1	0	66	19
Oldham	2	2	0	0	0	0	14	13
Oxfordshire	0	0	1	0	0	0	22	8
Peterborough	3	4	0	0	0	0	3	4
Plymouth	0	0	4	4	0	0	9	9
Poole	2	5	0	0	0	0	2	5
Portsmouth	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Reading	1	2	0	0	0	0	5	10
Redbridge	0	0	0	0	0	0	11	16
Redcar and Cleveland	2	3	4	7	0	0	15	26
Richmond upon Thames	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Rochdale	2	2	2	2	0	0	10	11
Rotherham	1	1	2	2	0	0	7	6
Rutland	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	5
Salford	1	1	5	5	0	0	23	23
Sandwell	0	0	4	3	0	0	11	10
Sefton	2	2	13	12	0	0	18	17
Sheffield	0	0	0	0	2	1	18	11
Shropshire	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
Slough	3	7	0	0	0	0	7	16
Solihull	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2
Somerset	0	0	0	0	1	0	3	1
South Gloucestershire	3	3	0	0	0	0	5	4
South Tyneside	2	3	0	0	0	0	14	21
Southampton	0	0	0	0	0	0	10	13
Southend-on-Sea	2	4	4	8	0	0	12	24
Southwark	0	0	2	2	0	0	4	4
St. Helens	4	6	0	0	0	0	8	12
Staffordshire	6	2	7	2	0	0	18	5
Stockport	3	3	9	8	0	0	16	14
Stockton-on-Tees	2	3	2	3	2	3	11	15
Stoke-on-Trent	7	7	3	3	0	0	28	29
Suffolk	3	1	2	1	0	0	8	2
Sunderland	6	5	0	0	0	0	19	17
Surrey	7	2	2	1	0	0	23	6
Sutton	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	5
Swindon	2	3	0	0	0	0	12	16
Tameside	0	0	1	1	0	0	8	9
Telford and Wrekin	4	5	6	8	0	0	12	16
Thurrock	2	4	4	8	0	0	9	17
Torbay	0	0	2	5	0	0	2	5
Tower Hamlets	0	0	1	1	0	0	9	10
Trafford	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	7
Wakefield	1	1	2	1	0	0	15	10
Walsall	0	0	6	5	0	0	13	11
Waltham Forest	2	3	0	0	0	0	11	14
Wandsworth	2	3	0	0	0	0	4	6
Warrington	0	0	0	0	0	0	10	12
Warwickshire	2	1	2	1	0	0	12	5
West Berkshire	0	0	4	5	0	0	4	5
West Sussex	14	5	0	0	0	0	17	6
Westminster	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Wigan	4	3	2	2	0	0	7	5
Wiltshire	4	2	9	4	2	1	20	8
Windsor and Maidenhead	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	3
Wirral	0	0	2	2	0	0	3	2
Wokingham	0	0	1	2	0	0	4	6
Wolverhampton	3	3	0	0	0	0	15	14
Worcestershire	2	1	2	1	0	0	19	8
York	0	0	0	0	0	0	13	20
Total Stock/Change	279	1	287	1	13	0	1,699	8
Note: Isles of Scilly amalgamated their five schools into one school (the Five Islands school) hence the 500 per cent. change in school stock in this authority. Source: DfES.

The aforementioned figures include schools that closed as a result of the amalgamation or merger of two or more schools; schools that have closed but reopened as voluntary schools with a religious character; and schools that have closed in local authorities that have moved from a three-tier to a two-tier system.

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