---

1 May 2008 : Column 690W—continued

1 May 2008 : Column 691W

1 May 2008 : Column 692W

1 May 2008 : Column 693W

1 May 2008 : Column 694W

1 May 2008 : Column 695W

1 May 2008 : Column 696W

Number of primary schools: 1997 to 2007, by local authority( 1) area and Government Office Region in England
		2007	2006	2005	2004	2003	2002	2001	2000	1999
	England	17,361	17,504	17,642	17,762	17,861	17,985	18,069	18,158	18,234
	North East	918	930	938	949	959	971	978	982	986
841	Darlington	30	30	32	34	35	35	35	38	38
840	Durham	236	241	241	243	244	247	247	247	249
390	Gateshead	73	75	75	75	75	75	75	76	76
805	Hartlepool	30	30	30	30	30	30	30	30	30
806	Middlesbrough	42	42	42	42	45	47	47	47	47
391	Newcastle upon Tyne	72	72	72	72	72	73	76	76	77
392	North Tyneside	56	56	56	56	56	56	56	56	56
929	Northumberland	138	138	141	141	143	143	143	142	142
807	Redcar and Cleveland	45	47	49	50	52	52	52	53	53
393	South Tyneside	51	53	53	54	55	56	56	57	57
808	Stockton-on-Tees	62	62	63	64	63	64	65	64	64
394	Sunderland	83	84	84	88	89	93	96	96	97
	North West	2,554	2,581	2,614	2,639	2,662	2,699	2,722	2,738	2,761
889	Blackburn with Darwen	56	56	57	58	58	59	59	59	60
890	Blackpool	29	30	32	32	32	32	33	33	33
350	Bolton	98	99	99	100	102	105	105	105	105
351	Bury	63	63	63	63	68	69	69	70	70
875	Cheshire	275	280	284	286	289	289	289	290	292
909	Cumbria	279	281	285	288	289	293	295	296	298
876	Halton	52	52	52	52	52	52	54	55	55
340	Knowsley	55	59	59	59	59	60	60	60	60
888	Lancashire	486	487	489	492	493	499	500	502	505
341	Liverpool	135	135	135	138	144	150	156	157	160
352	Manchester	133	135	136	137	139	141	146	150	157
353	Oldham	94	94	94	95	97	100	101	101	101
354	Rochdale	71	73	74	75	75	75	76	76	76
355	Salford	83	83	83	84	84	84	85	86	86
343	Sefton	78	80	88	89	89	90	91	60	93
342	St. Helens	54	56	56	58	58	59	59	92	62
356	Stockport	92	92	99	101	101	101	102	103	105
357	Tameside	75	75	76	76	77	79	79	79	79
358	Trafford	72	73	73	73	73	75	76	76	76
877	Warrington	71	71	71	71	71	74	74	75	75
359	Wigan	105	107	108	111	111	112	112	112	112
344	Wirral	98	100	101	101	101	101	101	101	101
	Yorkshire and the Humber	1,872	1,891	1,905	1,921	1,934	1,949	1,961	1,970	1,981
370	Barnsley	82	82	85	85	85	85	87	87	88
380	Bradford	158	159	159	159	158	158	157	163	165
381	Calderdale	85	85	85	87	87	88	88	89	89
371	Doncaster	103	103	103	104	108	110	113	113	113
811	East Riding of Yorkshire	132	133	134	135	136	135	135	135	135
810	Kingston Upon Hull, City of	71	77	77	77	78	79	80	80	81
382	Kirklees	151	151	152	152	152	152	152	152	152
383	Leeds	222	225	230	241	241	244	244	244	244
812	North East Lincolnshire	59	59	59	59	60	60	61	62	65
813	North Lincolnshire	66	67	67	68	69	69	69	69	69
815	North Yorkshire	326	328	329	329	329	329	329	328	328
372	Rotherham	103	104	106	106	108	108	110	110	111
373	Sheffield	136	140	140	140	142	147	147	148	149
384	Wakefield	124	124	125	125	127	128	130	130	130
816	York	54	54	54	54	54	57	59	60	62
	East Midlands	1,696	1,708	1,725	1,729	1,732	1,740	1,746	1,750	1,751
831	Derby	78	78	78	80	81	81	80	81	81
830	Derbyshire	358	358	358	358	359	361	361	362	363
856	Leicester	84	85	86	86	86	86	87	87	87
855	Leicestershire	225	226	226	226	226	227	227	228	228
925	Lincolnshire	285	286	288	289	289	289	289	289	289
928	Northamptonshire	265	268	272	271	269	269	270	270	269
892	Nottingham	92	93	98	98	99	101	101	101	101
891	Nottinghamshire	292	297	302	304	306	309	313	314	315
857	Rutland	17	17	17	17	17	17	18	18	18
	West Midlands	1,829	1,854	1,874	1,892	1,907	1,921	1,932	1,949	1,964
330	Birmingham	299	302	305	311	321	322	323	328	332
331	Coventry	85	85	86	86	87	89	89	89	89
332	Dudley	78	82	82	82	82	82	82	82	82
884	Herefordshire*	82	83	84	84	84	85	85	85	85
333	Sandwell	96	97	99	99	99	100	101	102	105
893	Shropshire	142	143	143	143	143	144	144	144	145
334	Solihull	67	67	67	67	68	68	68	68	68
860	Staffordshire	301	306	308	311	311	312	312	313	316
861	Stoke-on-Trent	71	71	74	78	80	83	86	88	88
894	Telford and Wrekin	57	61	64	66	66	65	65	66	66
335	Walsall	86	90	93	93	94	94	94	96	100
937	Warwickshire	196	196	197	198	197	197	199	200	200
336	Wolverhampton	80	80	80	82	82	87	88	91	91
885	Worcestershire*	189	191	192	192	193	193	196	197	197
	East of England	2,059	2,065	2,076	2,085	2,101	2,105	2,114	2,127	2,125
820	Bedfordshire	146	146	146	146	148	148	148	147	147
873	Cambridgeshire	201	203	202	202	204	205	206	207	205
881	Essex	473	474	474	474	477	479	484	490	488
919	Hertfordshire	407	408	416	418	421	422	425	426	426
821	Luton	54	57	57	58	61	61	61	65	66
926	Norfolk	384	385	385	385	386	386	387	389	390
874	Peterborough	58	58	58	59	59	58	58	57	57
882	Southend-on-Sea	37	37	39	40	42	42	43	43	43
935	Suffolk	256	254	254	256	255	256	255	256	256
883	Thurrock	43	43	45	47	48	48	47	47	47
	London	1,823	1,831	1,836	1,849	1,862	1,879	1,888	1,899	1,912
	Inner London	695	695	697	702	708	715	719	726	734
202	Camden	41	41	41	41	41	41	41	42	42
201	City of London	1	1	1	1	1	0	1	1	1
204	Hackney	53	54	55	54	56	57	58	58	57
205	Hammersmith and Fulham	35	35	35	35	35	36	36	36	36
309	Haringey	63	63	63	66	66	67	67	70	72
206	Islington	45	45	45	47	47	49	49	49	51
207	Kensington and Chelsea	26	26	26	26	26	26	26	26	26
208	Lambeth	60	59	59	59	61	63	65	67	70
209	Lewisham	69	69	69	69	70	70	70	70	70
316	Newham	66	66	66	66	66	65	64	64	63
210	Southwark	71	71	72	72	72	72	72	72	72
211	Tower Hamlets	69	69	69	69	70	72	73	73	75
212	Wandsworth	56	56	56	57	57	57	57	58	59
213	Westminster	40	40	40	40	40	40	40	40	40
	Outer London	1,128	1,136	1,139	1,147	1,154	1,164	1,169	1,173	1,178
301	Barking and Dagenham	49	49	49	49	49	49	49	49	50
302	Barnet	87	88	89	91	91	91	90	90	91
303	Bexley	59	59	59	61	63	63	63	63	64
304	Brent	59	61	60	60	60	60	60	59	60
305	Bromley	77	77	77	78	78	78	78	78	78
306	Croydon	91	91	92	93	94	94	94	94	95
307	Ealing	64	64	64	65	65	65	65	65	65
308	Enfield	66	67	67	66	65	65	65	66	66
203	Greenwich	64	64	64	64	64	65	67	69	69
310	Harrow	54	55	56	56	56	56	56	56	56
311	Havering	65	65	65	65	65	67	67	68	69
312	Hillingdon	65	65	66	66	66	67	67	67	66
313	Hounslow	60	60	60	60	60	60	64	64	64
314	Kingston upon Thames	36	37	37	37	37	37	37	37	37
315	Merton	43	43	43	43	43	49	49	49	49
317	Redbridge	50	51	51	51	51	51	51	52	52
318	Richmond upon Thames	41	41	41	41	41	39	39	39	39
319	Sutton	41	41	41	41	42	43	43	43	43
320	Waltham Forest	57	58	58	60	64	65	65	65	65
	South East	2,670	2,690	2,700	2,717	2,719	2,730	2,736	2,744	2,749
867	Bracknell Forest	30	30	31	32	32	33	33	33	33
846	Brighton and Hove	56	56	56	56	56	56	58	58	61
825	Buckinghamshire	184	185	185	185	185	190	192	195	199
845	East Sussex	156	156	156	156	156	156	155	155	155
850	Hampshire	430	433	434	437	437	438	438	439	439
921	Isle of Wight	46	46	46	46	46	46	46	46	46
886	Kent	466	470	474	474	475	476	476	475	474
887	Medway	85	86	88	88	89	90	89	89	88
826	Milton Keynes	90	91	89	88	86	86	84	86	84
931	Oxfordshire	233	233	234	234	233	233	234	233	233
851	Portsmouth	53	53	53	53	53	53	53	53	53
870	Reading	37	37	37	38	38	38	39	39	39
871	Slough	27	27	27	29	29	29	30	31	31
852	Southampton	61	63	63	63	64	65	65	67	69
936	Surrey	314	318	319	323	324	324	327	327	328
869	West Berkshire	66	66	68	68	68	68	68	68	68
938	West Sussex	240	242	242	249	249	249	249	250	248
868	Windsor and Maidenhead	45	46	46	46	46	46	46	46	46
872	Wokingham	51	52	52	52	53	54	54	54	55
	South West	1,940	1,954	1,974	1,981	1,985	1,991	1,992	1,999	2,005
800	Bath and North East Somerset	63	64	68	68	68	68	69	69	69
837	Bournemouth	27	27	27	27	28	28	28	28	28
801	Bristol, City of	111	118	118	118	118	119	119	121	123
908	Cornwall	238	239	241	242	243	245	245	245	244
878	Devon	318	318	321	322	323	323	323	324	323
835	Dorset	136	137	138	138	139	139	138	138	138
916	Gloucestershire	250	250	252	252	252	252	254	254	254
420	Isles of Scilly	1	1	1	1	1	4	4	4	4
802	North Somerset	66	65	65	65	65	65	65	65	66
879	Plymouth	76	76	78	78	78	79	79	80	80
836	Poole	28	29	29	30	30	30	30	30	30
933	Somerset	223	223	224	224	223	223	224	224	224
803	South Gloucestershire	96	96	96	98	98	98	98	97	100
866	Swindon	67	67	67	67	66	66	66	70	71
880	Torbay	32	32	33	33	33	33	33	33	34
865	Wiltshire	208	212	216	218	220	219	217	217	217

---