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Lord Stoddart of Swindon asked Her Majesty's Government:
Lord Williams of Mostyn: The form of the ballot paper is, subject to the regulations, a matter for the regional returning officer. Its size will depend on the number of parties and individual candidates who stand validly nominated and the number of seats to be filled in the region concerned.
I understand that the approximate sizes of the ballot papers in the British electoral regions for the forthcoming European parliamentary elections will be as follows:
Lord Peston asked Her Majesty's Government:
The Minister of State, Department for Education and Employment (Baroness Blackstone): The information currently available is shown in the table.
1996 | 1997 | 1998 | |
Hartlepool | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 |
Middlesbrough | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.3 |
Redcar and Cleveland | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Stockton-on-Tees | 7.9 | 8.0 | 8.3 |
Darlington | 5.6 | 5.8 | 5.7 |
Durham | 3.8 | 3.8 | 3.8 |
Northumberland | 1.4 | 1.6 | 1.6 |
Gateshead | 1.6 | 1.7 | 1.7 |
Newcastle-upon-Tyne | 18.4 | 18.2 | 18.1 |
North Tyneside | 5.2 | 5.0 | 5.0 |
South Tyneside | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 |
Sunderland | 2.2 | 2.3 | 2.4 |
NORTH EAST | 4.5 | 4.5 | 4.5 |
Cheshire | 6.9 | 6.8 | 6.9 |
Cumbria | 6.8 | 6.5 | 6.6 |
Bolton | 10.8 | 10.7 | 10.8 |
Bury | 15.5 | 14.9 | 15.1 |
Manchester | 18.5 | 18.4 | 18.2 |
Oldham | 6.8 | 6.7 | 6.7 |
Rochdale | 0.6 | 0.7 | 0.8 |
Salford | 5.5 | 5.9 | 6.2 |
Stockport | 13.7 | 13.7 | 13.5 |
Tameside | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.5 |
Trafford | 13.1 | 12.8 | 2.8 |
Wigan | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Lancashire | 6.3 | 6.2 | 6.5 |
NORTH WEST | 7.8 | 7.7 | 7.4 |
Knowsley | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Liverpool | 6.0 | 6.1 | 3.7 |
St. Helens | 2.1 | 2.2 | 2.3 |
Sefton | 10.9 | 10.8 | 10.5 |
Wirral | 5.9 | 5.9 | 5.8 |
MERSEYSIDE | 6.0 | 6.0 | 5.1 |
NORTH WEST AND MERSEYSIDE | 7.4 | 7.3 | 6.9 |
East Riding of Yorkshire | 3.8 | 3.8 | 3.5 |
City of Kingston-Upon-Hull | 6.3 | 6.3 | 6.2 |
North East Lincolnshire | 1.3 | 1.3 | 1.4 |
North Lincolnshire | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
York | 15.5 | 15.5 | 15.7 |
North Yorkshire | 9.1 | 9.1 | 8.5 |
Barnsley | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 |
Doncaster | 1.1 | 1.0 | 0.9 |
Rotherham | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 |
Sheffield | 4.2 | 4.4 | 4.5 |
Bradford | 6.3 | 6.2 | 6.2 |
Calderdale | 4.8 | 4.7 | 4.9 |
Kirklees | 5.2 | 5.4 | 5.6 |
Leeds | 5.7 | 5.6 | 5.6 |
Wakefield | 11.0 | 10.6 | 10.3 |
YORKSHIRE AND HUMBER | 5.4 | 5.4 | 5.3 |
Derby | 2.7 | 2.9 | 2.9 |
Derbyshire | 5.6 | 5.6 | 5.5 |
Leicester City | 5.8 | 6.2 | 6.3 |
Rutland | 42.1 | 42.9 | 43.1 |
Leicestershire | 6.9 | 7.1 | 7.2 |
Lincolnshire | 4.7 | 4.5 | 4.4 |
Northamptonshire | 7.2 | 7.1 | 7.1 |
Nottinghamshire | 4.7 | 4.6 | 4.7 |
EAST MIDLANDS | 6.1 | 6.1 | 6.1 |
Hereford and Worcester | 13.9 | 13.8 | 13.5 |
Shropshire | 11.4 | 11.2 | 11.1 |
Stoke | 2.0 | 2.4 | 0.0 |
Staffordshire | 4.9 | 4.7 | 4.6 |
Warwickshire | 11.6 | 10.3 | 10.1 |
Birmingham | 4.8 | 4.9 | 4.9 |
Coventry | 8.4 | 8.2 | 8.1 |
Dudley | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.7 |
Sandwell | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Solihull | 7.0 | 6.8 | 6.8 |
Walsall | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.9 |
Wolverhampton | 7.6 | 7.7 | 8.0 |
WEST MIDLANDS | 6.8 | 6.7 | 6.5 |
Luton | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.2 |
Bedfordshire | 12.5 | 12.3 | 11.9 |
Cambridgeshire | 10.6 | 10.6 | 11.0 |
Essex | 3.9 | 3.9 | 3.8 |
Hertfordshire | 13.8 | 13.9 | 13.9 |
Norfolk | 7.7 | 7.6 | 7.5 |
Suffolk | 11.1 | 10.8 | 10.6 |
EASTERN | 9.0 | 8.9 | 8.9 |
City of London | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 |
Camden | 17.3 | 17.3 | 17.4 |
Hackney | 11.9 | 12.4 | 13.7 |
Hammersmith and Fulham | 28.0 | 28.0 | 28.0 |
Haringey | 11.0 | 10.5 | 10.7 |
Islington | 2.6 | 1.9 | 1.9 |
Kensington and Chelsea | 57.8 | 57.8 | 57.3 |
Lambeth | 6.4 | 6.4 | 6.4 |
Lewisham | 9.2 | 9.3 | 8.4 |
Newham | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Southwark | 24.7 | 24.7 | 24.3 |
Tower Hamlets | 0.8 | 1.0 | 1.0 |
Wandsworth | 15.6 | 15.9 | 16.0 |
Westminster | 27.3 | 28.0 | 28.1 |
INNER LONDON | 15.9 | 16.0 | 15.9 |
Barking and Dagenham | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Barnet | 12.0 | 12.0 | 12.6 |
Bexley | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Brent | 2.3 | 2.8 | 3.1 |
Bromley | 10.7 | 10.2 | 10.0 |
Croydon | 21.9 | 22.2 | 20.5 |
Ealing | 16.0 | 16.2 | 16.1 |
Enfield | 1.3 | 1.2 | 1.3 |
Greenwich | 8.6 | 8.7 | 8.5 |
Harrow | 26.0 | 26.0 | 25.2 |
Havering | 0.8 | 0.7 | 0.6 |
Hillingdon | 9.7 | 10.0 | 10.1 |
Hounslow | 1.7 | 1.6 | 1.6 |
Kingston-upon-Thames | 15.9 | 16.3 | 16.4 |
Merton | 19.5 | 19.6 | 19.3 |
Redbridge | 8.0 | 7.6 | 7.6 |
Richmond-upon-Thames | 31.9 | 33.0 | 33.7 |
Sutton | 5.1 | 5.0 | 4.7 |
Waltham Forest | 9.5 | 8.3 | 8.0 |
OUTER LONDON | 10.2 | 10.2 | 10.0 |
LONDON | 12.1 | 12.1 | 12.0 |
Berkshire | 18.2 | 17.6 | 17.3 |
Milton Keynes | 4.0 | 3.3 | 3.2 |
Buckinghamshire | 8.2 | 7.8 | 9.2 |
Brighton & Hove | 18.8 | 18.9 | 18.0 |
East Sussex | 15.9 | 15.5 | 13.8 |
Portsmouth | 18.7 | 17.2 | 16.8 |
Southampton | 13.3 | 12.5 | 12.4 |
Hampshire | 9.3 | 9.2 | 9.3 |
Isle of Wight | 7.2 | 6.4 | 5.7 |
Kent | 8.2 | 8.1 | 8.2 |
Oxfordshire | 20.3 | 20.5 | 20.0 |
Surrey | 25.3 | 25.1 | 24.9 |
West Sussex | 12.6 | 12.5 | 12.5 |
SOUTH EAST | 14.0 | 13.9 | 13.7 |
Bath and NE Somerset | 19.5 | 19.4 | 18.9 |
City of Bristol | 25.6 | 25.6 | 25.6 |
North Somerset | 3.7 | 3.5 | 3.4 |
South Gloucestershire | 1.9 | 1.6 | 1.4 |
Cornwall | 4.9 | 4.9 | 4.7 |
Isles of Scilly | 0.0 | 0.0 | 4.2 |
Devon | 9.3 | 9.0 | 8.7 |
Bournemouth | 6.6 | 6.4 | 6.3 |
Poole | 8.1 | 8.1 | 8.6 |
Dorset | 11.3 | 13.6 | 13.1 |
Gloucestershire | 11.2 | 11.0 | 10.7 |
Somerset | 19.6 | 19.7 | 19.3 |
Swindon | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 |
Wiltshire | 12.7 | 12.6 | 12.5 |
SOUTH WEST | 11.3 | 11.3 | 11.1 |
ENGLAND | 9.1 | 9.0 | 8.9 |
Lord Peston asked Her Majesty's Government:
Baroness Blackstone: The information requested is shown in the attached table.
(1) Number of pupils in maintained comprehensive schools calculated as a percentage of pupils in all maintained secondary schools.
Baroness David asked Her Majesty's Government:
Baroness Blackstone: Information on school meals for individual schools is not published centrally. The available information is shown in the attached table.
Whether they will list for 1965, 1970, 1975, 1980, 1990 and 1995 and the latest year available the number of pupils in comprehensive secondary schools in England as a percentage of all pupils in maintained secondary education.[HL2501]
Year Percentage of pupils in Maintained Comprehensive Schools
1965 8.0
1970 29.3
1975 62.9
1980 81.4
1990 88.2
1995 86.2
1998 86.7
Whether they will list the number of children eligible for free school meals as a percentage of the pupils in each of the 166 grammar schools, compared to the percentage of all schoolchildren eligible for free school meals in the relevant local education authorities.[HL2503]
LEA Percentage of pupils known to be eligible for a free meal in maintained grammar schools Percentage of pupils known to be eligible for a free school meal in maintained secondary schools
Barnet 1.4 16.2
Bexley 5.0 13.5
Bromley 1.2 14.3
Enfield 2.2 21.0
Kingston upon Thames 2.4 9.4
Redbridge 3.7 17.5
Sutton 1.9 8.7
Birmingham 5.1 34.3
Walsall 2.5 19.8
Wolverhampton 2.8 22.0
Liverpool 6.0 39.5
Wirral 5.5 24.6
Trafford 4.9 18.9
Calderdale 3.2 17.7
Kirklees 3.1 18.6
City of Bristol 18.8 24.4
North Yorkshire 1.3 7.2
Buckinghamshire 1.6 7.0
Poole 3.5 9.6
Bournemouth 3.3 12.7
Stoke 0.5 23.7
Wiltshire 0.9 7.3
Berkshire 4.9 8.5
Cumbria 2.2 14.0
Devon 4.4 12.7
Essex 2.3 12.5
Gloucestershire 3.0 8.9
Kent 3.4 12.9
Lancashire 3.5 19.5
Lincolnshire 2.6 10.2
Shropshire 0.7 12.6
Warwickshire 1.7 8.9
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