9 Mar 2009 : Column 198Wcontinued
(b) Number of pupil referral units closed in each year, by local authority area |
| Year of closure | |
Local authority | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | Grand total |
Barnet
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1
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1
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Barnsley
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|
|
|
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1
|
|
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1
|
Bedfordshire
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|
|
|
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4
|
|
|
|
|
|
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4
|
Birmingham
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1
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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1
|
Bolton
|
|
|
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|
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|
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4
|
4
|
|
|
8
|
Bracknell Forest
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1
|
|
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|
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|
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1
|
Bradford
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1
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2
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3
|
Brent
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|
|
|
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|
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4
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|
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|
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4
|
Brighton and Hove
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4
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|
|
|
|
|
|
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4
|
Bristol City of
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|
|
|
|
|
|
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1
|
|
|
|
1
|
Bromley
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1
|
|
|
|
|
|
1
|
|
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|
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2
|
Buckinghamshire
|
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|
|
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2
|
|
|
|
|
|
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2
|
Calderdale
|
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|
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1
|
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|
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|
|
1
|
Cambridgeshire
|
|
|
|
|
|
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1
|
|
|
|
|
1
|
Cheshire
|
3
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
3
|
Cornwall
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1
|
1
|
2
|
Coventry
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|
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1
|
|
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1
|
1
|
|
|
|
1
|
4
|
Darlington
|
|
|
|
|
|
1
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|
|
|
|
|
1
|
Derby
|
3
|
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|
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|
3
|
Derbyshire
|
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|
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1
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|
|
|
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|
1
|
Devon
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1
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|
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|
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1
|
Doncaster
|
|
|
|
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|
|
1
|
|
|
|
5
|
6
|
Dorset
|
|
|
|
1
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1
|
Dudley
|
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1
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|
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|
|
|
|
|
|
1
|
Ealing
|
3
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
3
|
East Sussex
|
|
|
1
|
2
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
3
|
Enfield
|
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1
|
|
|
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|
1
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|
2
|
Essex
|
|
|
1
|
|
|
|
4
|
|
|
|
|
5
|
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9 Mar 2009 : Column 200W
Gateshead
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1
|
|
|
|
|
|
1
|
Gloucestershire
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
4
|
|
4
|
Greenwich
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1
|
|
|
|
|
1
|
Hackney
|
1
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1
|
Hampshire
|
|
|
|
1
|
3
|
|
1
|
|
|
|
|
5
|
Harrow
|
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|
|
1
|
|
|
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|
|
|
|
1
|
Hartlepool
|
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|
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1
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|
|
|
|
|
|
1
|
Havering
|
|
|
|
|
|
3
|
|
|
2
|
|
|
5
|
Herefordshire
|
|
1
|
1
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2
|
Hertfordshire
|
1
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1
|
Hounslow
|
|
|
|
|
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|
2
|
|
|
|
2
|
Isle of Wight
|
|
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1
|
|
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|
|
|
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|
|
1
|
Islington
|
|
1
|
1
|
|
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|
|
1
|
|
3
|
Kent
|
2
|
1
|
|
1
|
1
|
2
|
|
|
|
|
|
7
|
Kingston upon Hull City of
|
|
|
1
|
1
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2
|
Knowsley
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1
|
|
|
|
|
1
|
Lambeth
|
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|
|
|
|
1
|
|
2
|
|
|
1
|
4
|
Lancashire
|
1
|
|
|
|
|
1
|
1
|
2
|
1
|
2
|
|
8
|
Leeds
|
2
|
|
3
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1
|
6
|
Leicester
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|
|
|
|
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|
|
2
|
|
|
2
|
Leicestershire
|
|
|
|
|
|
1
|
|
2
|
|
|
|
3
|
Lewisham
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2
|
|
1
|
|
3
|
Lincolnshire
|
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|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1
|
1
|
Liverpool
|
|
|
|
1
|
|
4
|
|
|
|
|
1
|
6
|
Luton
|
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1
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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|
1
|
Manchester
|
|
|
|
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1
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|
|
|
1
|
|
|
2
|
Medway
|
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|
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|
|
1
|
1
|
|
|
|
2
|
Merton
|
|
|
|
|
|
1
|
|
|
|
|
|
1
|
Milton Keynes
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1
|
1
|
Newcastle upon Tyne
|
|
2
|
|
|
1
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
3
|
Norfolk
|
|
|
1
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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|
1
|
North East Lincolnshire
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1
|
|
1
|
|
|
2
|
North Somerset
|
|
1
|
|
|
|
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|
|
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|
|
1
|
North Tyneside
|
|
1
|
1
|
|
|
1
|
1
|
|
1
|
|
|
5
|
Northamptonshire
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1
|
1
|
|
2
|
Nottingham
|
1
|
|
2
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1
|
4
|
Nottinghamshire
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
4
|
|
|
|
4
|
Oxfordshire
|
|
|
|
|
6
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
6
|
Peterborough
|
|
|
|
1
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1
|
Portsmouth
|
|
|
|
|
|
1
|
|
|
3
|
|
|
4
|
Reading
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
5
|
|
|
|
5
|
Rotherham
|
|
|
|
|
|
2
|
|
|
|
|
2
|
4
|
Salford
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1
|
|
2
|
3
|
Sandwell
|
1
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1
|
Solihull
|
1
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1
|
Somerset
|
|
|
|
|
|
2
|
1
|
|
2
|
3
|
1
|
9
|
South Tyneside
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1
|
|
|
|
|
1
|
Southwark
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2
|
2
|
4
|
Staffordshire
|
1
|
|
1
|
2
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
4
|
Stockport
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1
|
|
|
|
|
1
|
Stockton-on-Tees
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1
|
1
|
Stoke-on-Trent
|
1
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2
|
|
|
3
|
Sunderland
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1
|
1
|
Surrey
|
2
|
3
|
|
2
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
7
|
Telford and Wrekin
|
_
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1
|
1
|
|
|
2
|
Thurrock
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1
|
|
|
1
|
Torbay
|
|
|
|
|
5
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
5
|
Trafford
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1
|
|
|
|
1
|
Walsall
|
|
|
|
|
1
|
1
|
|
|
|
|
|
2
|
Waltham Forest
|
|
|
|
|
|
2
|
2
|
|
|
|
|
4
|
Warrington
|
1
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1
|
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Warwickshire
|
|
3
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
3
|
West Berkshire
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
5
|
1
|
|
|
6
|
Wigan
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
3
|
3
|
Wirral
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1
|
|
|
|
1
|
Wokingham
|
|
1
|
|
|
|
|
|
1
|
|
|
|
2
|
Wolverhampton
|
|
|
|
|
|
1
|
|
|
|
|
|
1
|
Worcestershire
|
2
|
1
|
2
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
5
|
Grand total
|
28
|
20
|
21
|
15
|
26
|
29
|
24
|
35
|
25
|
15
|
25
|
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