Dari Taylor
PPS (Ms Hazel Blears, Minister of State), Home Office
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many free nursery and pre-reception class places have been created for three, four and five-year-olds in the constituency of Stockton, South since 1997.
Margaret Hodge
Minister of State (Education and Skills) (Children)
All four-year-olds in England have been entitled to a free part-time early education place since September 1998. All three-year-olds in England have been entitled to a free part-time early education place since April 2004.
The available information on the numbers of free part-time early education places taken up by three and four-year-olds in Stockton-on-Tees local education authority area and parliamentary constituencies within Stockton-on-Tees local education authority area since 1997 is shown in the tables.
The latest figures on early education places for three and four-year-olds in England were published in Statistical First Release 39/2004 Provision for children under five years of age in England—January 2004 (final)", which is available on the Department's website www.dfes.gov.uk/rsgateway/.
| 3-year-olds | 4-year-olds | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maintained nursery and primary schools(42) | Other maintained and private, voluntary and independent providers | Total 3-year-olds | Maintained nursery and primary schools(43) | Other maintained and private, voluntary and independent providers | Total 4-year-olds | |
| 1997 | 2,400 | n/a | 2,400 | n/a | n/a | (44)2,500 |
| 1998 | 2,200 | n/a | 2,200 | n/a | n/a | (44)2,400 |
| 1999 | 2,000 | n/a | 2,000 | n/a | n/a | (44)2,200 |
| 2000 | 1,900 | (45)70 | 2,000 | n/a | n/a | (44)2,200 |
| 2001 | 1,800 | (45)100 | 1,900 | n/a | n/a | (44)2,300 |
| 2002 | 1,700 | (45)220 | 1,900 | 2,100 | (44)90 | 2,200 |
| 2003 | 1,600 | (45)110 | 1,700 | 2,100 | (46)120 | 2,200 |
| 2004 | 1,600 | (45)220 | 1,800 | 2,100 | (48)140 | 2,200 |
n/a = Not available.
(41)Figures are rounded to the nearest 10 or 100 as appropriate.
(42)Headcount of children aged three at 31st December in the previous calendar year from the Annual Schools' Census.
(43)Headcount of children aged four at
(44)Part-time equivalent number of children aged four at
(45)Part-time equivalent number of children aged three at
(46)Part-time equivalent number of children aged four at
(47)Part-time equivalent number of children aged three at
(48)Part-time equivalent number of children aged four at
| 3-year-olds | 4-year-olds | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maintained nursery and primary schools(50) | Other maintained and private, voluntary and independent providers(51) | Total 3-year-olds | Maintained nursery and primary schools(52) | Other maintained and private, voluntary and independent providers(53) | Total 4-year-olds | |
| Stockton North | 760 | 70 | 830 | 940 | 60 | 1,000 |
| Stockton South | 860 | 150 | 1,000 | 1,100 | 80 | 1,200 |
| Stockton LEA Total | 1,600 | 220 | 1,800 | 2,100 | 140 | 2,200 |
(49)Figures are rounded to the nearest 10 or 100 as appropriate.
(50)Headcount of children aged three at
(51)Part-time equivalent number of children aged three at
(52)Headcount of children aged four at
(53)Part-time equivalent number of children aged four at
Changes in pupil figures may arise from changes to the underlying population in the local education authority area and other factors. However, my Department does not publish population figures for individual age cohorts at sub-national level because of the unreliability of the underlying population estimates. The Office for National Statistics publish sub-national population estimates in five-year age bands.
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