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Dept for Education and Employment

Answer

Mr. Clappison: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, pursuant to his letter of 27 October to the hon. Member for Hertsmere on infant class sizes, if he will give a breakdown of the 1,600 new classrooms to which he refers (a) by type of school and (b) by local education authority. [96918] Ms Estelle Morris: To date, over 1,700 extra classrooms have been provided through the class sizes initiative. These are detailed by both local education authority and type of school in the following table. Sufficient funding has been earmarked to allow at least 800 further classrooms to be built by September 2001, when statutory limits on infant class sizes are introduced. Key stage 1 classrooms provided under the class sizes initiative by local education authority and type of school _________________________________________________________________________________________________. KS1 classrooms provided by type of school Local education authority County/Community Voluntary Voluntary aided GM/Foundation Total controlled Barking and Dagenham 2 -- -- -- 2 Barnet 3 -- -- -- 3 Barnsley 4 -- 2 -- 6 Bath and North East 3 2 -- -- 5 Somerset Bedfordshire 21 2 1 -- 24 Bexley 6 -- 1 -- 7 Birmingham 3 -- 2 -- 5 Blackburn 4 2 4 -- 10 Blackpool 8 -- 2 -- 10 Bolton 5 1 6 1 13 Bournemouth 5 -- 4 -- 9 Bracknell Forest 3 2 2 -- 7 Bradford -- -- 2 -- 2 Brent -- -- 1 -- 1 Brighton and Hove 7 -- -- -- 7 Bristol 5 -- 1 -- 6 Bromley 12 -- -- -- 12 Buckinghamshire 6 10 5 -- 21 Bury 9 3 7 4 23 Calderdale -- -- 1 -- 1 Cambridgeshire 14 4 3 -- 21 Camden 1 -- -- -- 1 Cheshire 20 -- 5 1 26 City of London -- -- -- -- 0 Cornwall 9 -- 4 -- 13 Coventry 4 -- 3 -- 7 Croydon 3 -- -- 1 4 Cumbria 6 2 8 4 20 Darlington 3 1 4 -- 8 Derby 14 -- 2 -- 16 Derbyshire 35 10 5 1 51 Devon 13 1 3 -- 17 Doncaster 2 -- 2 -- 4 Dorset 2 5 6 -- 13 Dudley 9 -- 2 -- 11 Durham 8 -- 2 -- 10 Ealing 9 -- -- -- 9 East Riding of Yorkshire 7 7 1 -- 15 East Sussex 9 3 -- -- 12 Enfield 6 -- 5 -- 11 Essex 10 4 7 5 26 Gateshead -- -- 2 -- 2 Gloucestershire 4 2 3 3 12 Greenwich 1 -- -- -- 1 Hackney -- -- -- -- 0 Halton -- 1 1 -- 2 Hammersmith and Fulham -- -- -- -- 0 Hampshire 14 2 4 1 21 Haringey -- -- -- -- 0 Harrow -- -- -- -- 0 Hartlepool 4 -- -- -- 4 Havering 3 -- 1 -- 4 Herefordshire 9 -- -- -- 9 Hertfordshire 7 4 2 1 14 Hillingdon 24 -- 4 -- 28 Hounslow 4 -- 2 -- 6 Isle of Wight 2 1 -- -- 3 Isles of Scilly -- -- -- -- 0 Islington -- -- -- -- 0 Kensington and Chelsea -- -- -- -- 0 Kent 12 2 9 -- 22 Kingston upon Hull 6 -- 1 -- 7 Kingston upon Thames 12 -- 14 -- 26 Kirklees 13 2 2 -- 17 Knowsley 6 -- 1 -- 7 Lambeth 3 -- 2 -- 5 Lancashire 47 1 42 1 91 Leeds 10 2 -- -- 12 Leicester City 10 1 4 -- 15 Leicestershire 12 4 -- -- 16 Lewisham -- -- -- -- 0 Lincolnshire 6 6 1 -- 13 Liverpool 1 -- 3 -- 4 Luton 9 -- 2 -- 11 Manchester 1 -- -- 1 2 Medway Towns 6 -- 1 -- 7 Merton 18 -- 9 -- 27 Middlesbrough -- -- 1 -- 1 Milton Keynes 4 -- 2 -- 6 Newcastle upon Tyne 6 -- 3 -- 9 Newham 12 1 1 -- 14 Norfolk 18 1 1 -- 20 North East Lincolnshire 8 2 -- -- 10 North Lincolnshire 5 1 1 -- 7 North Somerset 4 -- -- -- 4 North Tyneside 9 -- 1 -- 10 North Yorkshire 18 5 3 -- 26 Northamptonshire 13 1 1 1 16 Northumberland 8 -- 5 -- 13 Nottingham City 7 -- 2 -- 9 Nottinghamshire 37 4 5 -- 46 Oldham 13 2 14 -- 29 Oxfordshire 12 8 9 -- 29 Peterborough 5 -- 1 1 7 Plymouth -- -- -- -- 0 Poole 7 -- 2 -- 9 Portsmouth 2 -- 2 -- 4 Reading 2 -- 3 -- 5 Redbridge 10 -- 1 -- 11 Redcar and Cleveland 7 -- 1 -- 8 Richmond upon Thames 14 -- 5 -- 19 Rochdale 5 4 6 6 21 Rotherham 7 -- 7 -- 14 Rutland -- -- -- 1 1 Salford 4 1 1 -- 6 Sandwell 14 3 2 -- 19 Sefton 8 2 3 -- 13 Sheffield 2 -- -- 1 3 Shropshire 6 3 1 -- 10 Slough 8 -- -- -- 8 Solihull 14 1 20 -- 35 Somerset 9 6 2 -- 17 South Gloucestershire 17 5 1 -- 23 South Tyneside -- -- -- -- 0 Southampton 2 -- 2 -- 4 Southend on Sea 5 -- -- -- 5 Southwark 2 -- 1 -- 3 St. Helens 8 -- 3 -- 11 Staffordshire 11 1 1 -- 13 Stockport 14 5 4 -- 23 Stockton on Tees 5 1 1 -- 7 Stoke on Trent 15 -- 6 -- 21 Suffolk 8 -- 3 -- 11 Sunderland 2 -- -- -- 2 Surrey 6 -- 6 -- 12 Sutton 7 -- 2 1 10 Swindon 7 -- -- -- 7 Tameside 4 1 4 -- 9 Telford and Wrekin 2 1 2 -- 5 Thurrock 5 -- -- 1 6 Torbay 6 1 3 -- 9 Tower Hamlets -- -- -- -- 0 Trafford 6 -- 7 -- 13 Wakefield 12 1 4 -- 17 Walsall 7 3 2 1 13 Waltham Forest 3 -- -- -- 3 Wandsworth 4 -- 1 -- 5 Warrington 7 -- 8 -- 15 Warwickshire 4 -- 3 2 9 West Berkshire 3 2 4 1 10 West Sussex 9 6 4 -- 19 Westminster -- -- -- -- 0 Wigan 6 -- 21 -- 27 Wiltshire 12 -- 7 4 23 Windsor and Maidenhead 2 -- 2 -- 4 Wirral 12 1 4 -- 17 Wokingham 8 2 3 -- 13 Wolverhampton 15 -- 3 -- 18 Worcestershire 7 3 4 -- 14 York, City of 2 1 1 -- 4 Total 1,075 166 434 44 1,718 _________________________________________________________________________________________________.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

96918; 337 c316-20W

Session

1998-99

Subjects

Class sizes Local education authorities Primary education Schools

Contains statistics

Yes