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All figures in the tables are exclusive of VAT. We would only be able to break down information from July 2004 at disproportionate cost.

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Bullying

Sarah Teather: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many incidents of homophobic bullying were recorded by (a) primary and (b) secondary schools in each of the last five years. [82670]

Jim Knight: We are unable to provide this information as we do not collect these data centrally. However, individual schools may record incidents of bullying, including homophobic bullying, and some local authorities keep records for their own area.

We take the issue of homophobic bullying in schools very seriously and we gave an undertaking in the White Paper, “Higher Standards, Better Education for All” to issue guidance on bullying motivated by prejudice, including homophobia.

During Anti Bullying week in 2004 we published “Homophobia, Sexual Orientation and Schools: a review and implications for action”, by the Thomas Coram Research Unit, which looked at three areas: behaviour and bullying; teaching and learning about sexual orientation and relationships; and employment issues. It collates, summarises and assesses both peer reviewed research material, from this country and abroad, and less formal work conducted by bodies active in this area. It reports the views of a wide range of organisations, 28 in all, with an interest in this area to paint a picture of how the issues are currently perceived. The report is available on the DfES website http://www.dfes.gov.uk/research and the findings will be used to inform future work in this area.

Children's Centres

Ann Coffey: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many children's centres there are in each local authority area in England. [81872]

Beverley Hughes: The number of Sure Start Children's Centres in each local authority area is listed in the following table:

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Region	Local authority	Number of centres designated as at 30 June 2006
East of England	Bedfordshire	7
East of England	Cambridgeshire	3
East of England	Essex	9
East of England	Hertfordshire	6
East of England	Luton	9
East of England	Norfolk	11
East of England	Peterborough	5
East of England	Southend on Sea	3
East of England	Suffolk	6
East of England	Thurrock	3
East Midlands	Derby	4
East Midlands	Derbyshire	10
East Midlands	Leicester	9
East Midlands	Leicestershire	3
East Midlands	Lincolnshire	10
East Midlands	Northamptonshire	3
East Midlands	Nottingham City	3
East Midlands	Nottinghamshire	16
East Midlands	Rutland	—
London	Barking and Dagenham	5
London	Barnet	1
London	Bexley	4
London	Brent	4
London	Bromley	1
London	Camden	9
London	Croydon	3
London	Ealing	10
London	Enfield	3
London	Greenwich	9
London	Hackney	5
London	Hammersmith and Fulham	5
London	Haringey	10
London	Harrow	1
London	Havering	—
London	Hillingdon	1
London	Hounslow	3
London	Islington	9
London	Kensington and Chelsea	4
London	Kingston upon Thames	—
London	Lambeth	10
London	Lewisham	3
London	Merton	1
London	Newham	5
London	Redbridge	4
London	Richmond Upon Thames	—
London	Southwark	9
London	Sutton	1
London	Tower Hamlets	9
London	Waltham Forest	5
London	Wandsworth	3
London	Westminster	5
North East	Darlington	4
North East	Durham	16
North East	Gateshead	10
North East	Hartlepool	5
North East	Middlesbrough	8
North East	Newcastle upon Tyne	10
North East	North Tyneside	5
North East	Northumberland	9
North East	Redcar and Cleveland	6
North East	South Tyneside	7
North East	Stockton-on-Tees	4
North East	Sunderland	11
North West	Blackburn with Darwen	9
North West	Blackpool	6
North West	Bolton	5
North West	Bury	2
North West	Cheshire	5
North West	Cumbria	16
North West	Halton	5
North West	Knowsley	7
North West	Lancashire	30
North West	Liverpool	11
North West	Manchester	18
North West	Oldham	1
North West	Rochdale	3
North West	Salford	5
North West	Sefton	4
North West	St. Helens	5
North West	Stockport	1
North West	Tameside	4
North West	Trafford	2
North West	Warrington	3
North West	Wigan	4
North West	Wirral	5
South East	Bracknell Forest	—
South East	Brighton and Hove	4
South East	Buckinghamshire	1
South East	East Sussex	6
South East	Hampshire	7
South East	Isle of Wight	5
South East	Kent	13
South East	Medway	4
South East	Milton Keynes	2
South East	Oxfordshire	4
South East	Portsmouth	6
South East	Reading	3
South East	Slough	3
South East	Southampton	4
South East	Surrey	3
South East	West Berkshire	—
South East	West Sussex	6
South East	Windsor and Maidenhead	—
South East	Wokingham	—
South West	Bath and North East Somerset	1
South West	Bournemouth	2
South West	Bristol, City of	9
South West	Cornwall	20
South West	Devon	6
South West	Dorset	4
South West	Gloucestershire	8
South West	North Somerset	1
South West	Plymouth	8
South West	Poole	—
South West	Somerset	14
South West	South Gloucestershire	—
South West	Swindon	3
South West	Torbay	2
South West	Wiltshire	—
West Midlands	Birmingham	18
West Midlands	Coventry	8
West Midlands	Dudley	4
West Midlands	Herefordshire	4
West Midlands	Sandwell	7
West Midlands	Shropshire	2
West Midlands	Solihull	3
West Midlands	Staffordshire	5
West Midlands	Stoke-on-Trent	8
West Midlands	Telford and Wrekin	6
West Midlands	Walsall	6
West Midlands	Warwickshire	9
West Midlands	Wolverhampton	8
West Midlands	Worcestershire	9
Yorkshire and Humberside	Barnsley	13
Yorkshire and Humberside	Bradford	7
Yorkshire and Humberside	Calderdale	4
Yorkshire and Humberside	Doncaster	14
Yorkshire and Humberside	East Riding of Yorkshire	4
Yorkshire and Humberside	Kingston upon Hull, City of	8
Yorkshire and Humberside	Kirklees	6
Yorkshire and Humberside	Leeds	21
Yorkshire and Humberside	North East Lincolnshire	4
Yorkshire and Humberside	North Lincolnshire	6
Yorkshire and Humberside	North Yorkshire	4
Yorkshire and Humberside	Rotherham	7
Yorkshire and Humberside	Sheffield	11
Yorkshire and Humberside	Wakefield	4
Yorkshire and Humberside	York	—
Total		867

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