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Jim Knight: Information on the number of foreign pupils in schools is not collected centrally.

A table showing the number of pupils whose first language is known or believed to be other than English follows.

Maintained primary and secondary schools( 1) : number and percentage of pupils whose first language is known or believed to be other than English as at January 2006
		Pupils of compulsory school age and above( 2, 3)
		Primary schools		Secondary schools
		Number of pupils whose first language is known or believed to be other than English	Percentage of pupils whose first language is known or believed to be other than English( 4)	Number of pupils whose first language is known or believed to be other than English	Percentage of pupils whose first language is known or believed to be other than English( 4)
	England(5)	419,600	12.5	314,950	9.5
	London(5)	189,890	39.1	141,780	33.5
	Inner London( 5)	90,780	52.3	60,540	47.4
202	Camden	5,039	57.8	4,120	41.4
201	City of London	117	65.4	n/a	n/a
204	Hackney	7,282	53.7	3,359	48.1
205	Hammersmith and Fulham	3,188	44.0	2,529	36.9
309	Haringey	8,910	53.5	5,349	45.9
206	Islington	4,527	41.0	3,645	45.2
207	Kensington and Chelsea	2,830	51.7	1,512	43.0
208	Lambeth	7,052	46.5	3,174	39.4
209	Lewisham	4,985	29.6	2,737	24.9
316	Newham	16,346	71.0	11,488	62.9
210	Southwark	6,927	39.6	4,637	45.3
211	Tower Hamlets	12,627	75.5	9,461	65.9
212	Wandsworth	5,119	39.1	3,779	36.2
213	Westminster	5,835	69.3	4,751	56.6
	Outer London( 5)	99,100	31.8	81,240	27.5
301	Barking and Dagenham	3,366	24.0	2,358	18.7
302	Barnet	8,001	39.2	6,621	33.9
303	Bexley	1,385	8.4	1,491	8.1
304	Brent	10,441	58.2	9,019	54.9
305	Bromley	1,187	5.9	1,129	5.0
306	Croydon	5,320	22.6	3,414	18.3
307	Ealing	10,551	53.6	7,367	48.5
308	Enfield	8,538	39.5	7,783	35.1
203	Greenwich	4,819	30.1	3,777	26.0
310	Harrow	7,675	47.3	4,019	44.5
311	Havering	814	5.0	623	3.8
312	Hillingdon	5,264	28.8	4,319	25.3
313	Hounslow	7,058	49.1	8,587	51.8
314	Kingston upon Thames	2,111	23.4	1,935	20.2
315	Merton	3,290	30.4	2,053	23.9
317	Redbridge	9,409	50.5	9,196	44.5
318	Richmond upon Thames	1,579	15.3	976	13.6
319	Sutton	1,323	11.4	1,736	10.7
320	Waltham Forest	6,972	42.4	4,832	34.3
	Ruislip-Northwood parliamentary constituency	789	13.9	693	12.5
n/a = not applicable—no schools of this type. (1 )Includes middle schools as deemed. (2 )Pupils aged 5 and over are classified according to whether their first language is known or believed to be English or other than English. (3 )Excludes dually registered pupils4. (4 )The number of pupils whose first language is known or believed to be other than English expressed as a percentage of all pupils aged five and over. (5 )National and regional totals have been rounded to the nearest 10. Source: Schools’ Census

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Free Nursery Places

Mr. Hollobone: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what assessment his Department has made of the impact on private and independent nursery providers of the new code of practice on the funding of free nursery places for three and four-year-olds. [93496]

Beverley Hughes: The single substantive change to the delivery of the free early education entitlement made in the 2006 code of practice was the extension of the free entitlement from 33 to 38 weeks. We conducted a full public consultation on the 2006 code from June to October 2005, to which 585 responses were received, the majority from private providers who were generally content with the proposed extension to 38 weeks. A summary of responses is available at:

http://www.dfes.gov.uk/consultations/conResults.cfm? consultationld=1329

Additional funding of £82 million in financial years 2006-07 and 2007-08 has been made available to local authorities to deliver the additional weeks and a number of measures were included in the code of practice to aid the transition, to support parental choice and to reflect provider circumstances. These included: allowing that the 38 weeks provision could be delivered by a single provider or by providers in cooperation; indicating that where a parent decided explicitly that they wanted to take their provision with a provider offering only 33 weeks they could do so and the provider would be paid for that period; and recommending that the transition be phased over a year.

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