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Written question asked by Lord Blunkett (Labour) on Friday, 17 February 2012, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Tuesday, 21 February 2012. It was answered by Nick Gibb (Conservative) on Monday, 27 February 2012 on behalf of the Department for Education.

Reading: Teaching Methods

Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many (a) pupils and (b) teachers took part in the Every Child a Reader project in (i) England and (ii) each region in each year since 2008.
Answer

The following table gives figures broken down by teachers and children, and by region and for England as a whole, for the three full years that data are available:

Region Number of ECaR teachers 2008-09 Number of ECaR children 2008-09 Number of ECaR teachers 2009-10 Number of ECaR children 2009-10 Number of ECaR teachers 2010-11 Number of ECaR children 2010-11
East 31 506 118 1,235 205 2,350
East Midlands 76 702 11 1,426 165 1,539
London 309 2,825 383 3,680 457 4,155
North East 41 410 75 742 116 1,213
North West 166 1,807 267 4,143 384 4,387
South East 149 2,157 207 3,168 316 3,975
South West 123 1,911 156 3,060 216 4,121
West Midlands 107 929 193 2,400 294 2,976
Yorks 186 2,035 240 2,602 329 2,916
England overall 1,188 13,282 1,750 22,456 2,482 27,632

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
95809; 541 c148-50W
Session
2010-12
Subjects
Reading Teaching methods
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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