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Dept for Education and Employment

Answer

Mr. Clappison: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will list the local education authorities with pupils in classes of 41 or more taught by one teacher (a) in maintained secondary schools and (b) in Key Stage 2 in maintained primary schools, indicating how many such pupils there are in each case. [94926] Ms Estelle Morris: The available information is shown in the tables. Number of pupils in maintained secondary schools of size 41 or more taught by one teacher, January 1999 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. LEA Number of pupils Blackpool 41 Bradford 41 Durham 41 Nottinghamshire 41 City of Bristol 42 Manchester 42 Northumberland 42 City of Plymouth 44 Lincolnshire 45 Warwickshire 45 Windsor and Maidenhead 45 Wigan 48 Redbridge 51 Bolton 56 Gloucestershire 57 Milton Keynes 57 Wolverhampton 64 Wiltshire 66 Bracknell Forest 78 Hertfordshire 78 Leicestershire 99 Herefordshire 129 Kent 153 Cumbria 175 England 1,580 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Number of pupils in Key Stage 2 classes of size 41 or more taught by one teacher, January 1999 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. LEA Number of pupils Blackburn with Darwen 41 City of Kingston-upon-Hull 41 City of Nottingham 41 Derby 41 East Riding of Yorkshire 41 Leicestershire 41 North East Lincolnshire 41 Northumberland 41 Oldham 41 Sefton 41 Staffordshire 41 Stockport 41 Cambridgeshire 42 Hertfordshire 42 Nottinghamshire 42 Wiltshire 42 Devon 43 Norfolk 43 Wirral 43 Havering 54 Bolton 83 Dorset 83 St. Helens 83 Halton 87 Lancashire 124 Derbyshire 387 England 1,690 _________________________________________________________________________________________________.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

337 c519W; 94926

Session

1998-99

Subjects

Class sizes Local education authorities Primary education Secondary education

Contains statistics

Yes