Written question asked by Lord Willis of Knaresborough (Liberal Democrat) on Wednesday, 9 February 2005, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Tuesday, 22 February 2005. It was answered by Derek Twigg (Labour) on Tuesday, 22 February 2005 on behalf of the Department for Education and Skills.

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Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many pupil referral units there are in (a) England, (b) each region and (c) each local education authority. - Inc table.

Answer: Mr. Willis: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many pupil referral units there are in (a) England, (b) each region and (c) each local education authority. [216866] Derek Twigg: The information requested is shown in the following table. Number of pupil referral units: January 2004-- by local education authority area _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Number England 426 North-east 20 Darlington 1 Durham 1 Gateshead 1 Hartlepool 1 Middlesbrough 4 Newcastle upon Tyne 1 North Tyneside 4 Northumberland 1 Redcar and Cleveland 1 South Tyneside 2 Stockton-on-Tees 2 Sunderland 1 North-west 67 Blackburn with Darwen 2 Blackpool 1 Bolton 11 Bury 2 Cheshire 0 Cumbria 3 Halton 2 Knowsley 2 Lancashire 16 Liverpool 1 Manchester 4 Oldham 0 Rochdale 1 Salford 4 Sefton 3 St. Helens 2 Stockport 3 Tameside 3 Trafford 2 Warrington 1 Wigan 3 Wirral 1 Yorkshire and the Humber 43 Barnsley 2 Bradford 4 Calderdale 1 Doncaster 6 East Riding of Yorkshire 2 Kingston Upon Hull, City of 5 Kirklees 2 Leeds 4 North East Lincolnshire 3 North Lincolnshire 2 North Yorkshire 2 Rotherham 3 Sheffield 3 Wakefield 2 York 2 East Midlands 29 Derby 1 Derbyshire 6 Leicester 3 Leicestershire 3 Lincolnshire 5 Northamptonshire 4 Nottingham 3 Nottinghamshire 4 Rutland 0 West Midlands 51 Birmingham 3 Coventry 4 Dudley 3 Herefordshire 3 Sandwell 5 Shropshire 1 Solihull 3 Staffordshire 5 Stoke-on-Trent 3 Telford and Wrekin 4 Walsall 3 Warwickshire 1 Wolverhampton 4 Worcestershire 9 East of England 37 Bedfordshire 1 Cambridgeshire 5 Essex 6 Hertfordshire 8 Luton 2 Norfolk 4 Peterborough 1 Southend-on-Sea 1 Suffolk 8 Thurrock 1 London 69 Inner London 27 Camden 2 City of London 0 Hackney 2 Hammersmith and Fulham 2 Haringey 1 Islington 5 Kensington and Chelsea 1 Lambeth 3 Lewisham 3 Newham 1 Southwark 3 Tower Hamlets 1 Wandsworth 2 Westminster 1 Outer London 42 Barking and Dagenham 1 Barnet 2 Bexley 2 Brent 6 Bromley 2 Croydon 5 Ealing 2 Enfield 3 Greenwich 2 Harrow 1 Havering 3 Hillingdon 1 Hounslow 4 Kingston upon Thames 2 Merton 1 Redbridge 2 Richmond upon Thames 1 Sutton 1 Waltham Forest 1 South-east 70 Bracknell Forest 2 Brighton and Hove 0 Buckinghamshire 5 East Sussex 2 Hampshire 7 Isle of Wight 2 Kent 10 Medway 4 Milton Keynes 4 Oxfordshire 1 Portsmouth 4 Reading 3 Slough 3 Southampton 2 Surrey 11 West Berkshire 5 West Sussex 2 Windsor and Maidenhead 2 Wokingham 1 South-west 40 Bath and North East Somerset 1 Bournemouth 1 Bristol, City of 5 Cornwall 0 Devon 6 Dorset 5 Gloucestershire 4 Isles of Scilly 0 North Somerset 3 Plymouth 3 Poole 1 Somerset 7 South Gloucestershire 1 Swindon 1 Torbay 1 Wiltshire 1 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Source: Annual Schools' Census

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Type: Written question
Reference: 216866; 431 c542-4W;431 c538-40W
Session: 2004-05
Subjects: Local education authorities Pupil referral units
Contains statistics: Yes
Link: View this Written question on www.publications.parliament.uk

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