Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many maintained nursery schools there are in (a) London and (b) England.

These figures are published in the local authority tables of the annual statistical release ‘Schools, pupils and their characteristics’. This is available at https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-school-and-pupil-numbers for 2010 onwards. For 2000, please consult the national archives website at the following link: http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20130321033119/http://www.education.gov.uk/researchandstatistics/statistics/allstatistics/a00193434/schools-in-england-2000.