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Pupil Referral Units
Tim Loughton:
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families pursuant to the answer of 21 April 2008, Official Report, columns 1559-60W, on pupil referral units, how many pupil referral units (a) opened and (b) closed in each local authority area in each year; and how many (i) opened and (ii) closed in 2008. [257797]
Sarah McCarthy-Fry:
The numbers of Pupil Referral Units Opened and Closed between 1998 and 2008, by local authority area are detailed in the following tables.
Please note that the total figures in these tables differ slightly from those to the answer of 21 April 2008, Official Report, columns 1559-60W, as there have been a number of retrospective changes implemented on the Department's database.
(a) Number of pupil referral units opened in each year, by local authority area Year of opening Local authority 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 Gran d total
Barking and Dagenham
1
1
Barnet
1
1
2
Barnsley
1
1
Bath and North East Somerset
1
1
Bedfordshire
1
2
1
1
5
Birmingham
1
1
2
Blackburn with Darwen
1
1
2
Blackpool
1
1
Bolton
2
8
2
3
15
Bournemouth
1
1
Bracknell Forest
1
1
Bradford
2
2
1
1
6
Brent
4
1
1
1
7
Bristol City of
1
1
1
3
Bromley
1
1
Buckinghamshire
1
1
Bury
1
2
Calderdale
1
1
Cambridgeshire
4
1
1
6
Camden
1
1
1
3
Cheshire
1
1
Cornwall
7
3
Coventry
2
1
1
1
5
Croydon
2
1
3
Cumbria
1
1
Darlington
1
1
Derby
1
1
Derbyshire
1
2
1
1
5
Devon
1
1
3
5
Doncaster
1
1
4
6
Dorset
1
1
2
4
Dudley
1
1
Ealing
1
1
2
East Riding of Yorkshire
2
2
Enfield
1
1
2
Essex
1
2
1
4
8
Gateshead
1
1
Gloucestershire
1
1
3
5
Greenwich
1
1
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Hackney
1
1
1
3
Halton
2
2
Hampshire
1
1
1
3
Haringey
1
1
Hartlepool
1
1
Havering
1
3
2
1
7
Herefordshire
1
1
Hillingdon
1
1
Hounslow
4
4
Isle of Wight
2
Islington
1
2
3
Kent
1
2
2
3
6
14
Kingston upon Hull City of
1
1
2
Kirklees
1
1
Knowsley
1
1
Lambeth
1
1
2
1
5
Lancashire
1
5
1
2
1
1
11
Leeds
2
1
1
4
Leicester
1
2
1
1
5
Leicestershire
4
4
Lewisham
1
1
2
Lincolnshire
1
1
Liverpool
1
1
2
4
Luton
1
1
Manchester
2
1
1
1
5
Medway
1
1
1
3
Merton
1
1
2
Middlesbrough
1
2
1
4
Milton Keynes
1
2
3
Newcastle upon Tyne
1
1
Newham
1
1
Norfolk
1
2
North East Lincolnshire
1
1
2
North Somerset
2
1
3
North Tyneside
3
3
North Yorkshire
2
2
Northamptonshire
1
1
1
1
4
Northumberland
1
1
Nottingham
1
1
1
3
Nottinghamshire
1
1
2
Oldham
1
1
Oxfordshire
1
1
Portsmouth
1
1
Reading
1
1
2
4
Redbridge
1
1
2
Richmond upon Thames
1
1
Rochdale
1
1
Rotherham
1
1
1
1
3
7
Salford
2
1
1
1
5
Sandwell
1
1
1
2
5
Seta
1
1
Sheffield
2
2
Shropshire
1
1
Slough
1
1
Solihull
1
1
1
3
Somerset
1
1
3
8
4
2
19
South Gloucestershire
1
1
Southampton
1
1
2
Southend-on-Sea
1
1
Southwark
1
1
1
3
St Helens
1
1
Staffordshire
1
1
1
1
4
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Stockport
1
1
2
Stockton-on-Tees
1
1
Stoke-on-Trent
1
1
1
3
Suffolk
1
1
1
3
2
8
Sunderland
4
4
Surrey
1
2
1
1
1
6
Sutton
1
1
Swindon
1
1
Tameside
2
2
Telford and Wrekin
1
3
1
5
Thurrock
1
Torbay
4
1
5
Trafford
2
1
1
4
Walsall
1
2
3
Waltham Forest
4
1
1
7
Wandsworth
1
1
1
3
Warrington
1
1
Warwickshire
1
1
West Berkshire
1
2
3
6
West Sussex
2
2
Westminster
1
2
3
Wigan
3
4
7
Wiltshire
1
1
Windsor and Maidenhead
1
1
Wirral
1
1
Wokingham
1
2
3
Wolverhampton
2
2
Worcestershire
1
1
York
1
1
Grand total
18
19
23
28
72
75
55
34
27
18
32
401