30 and 31. Mr. W. Joseph Stewartasked the President of the Board of Education (1) if he will state the amount of rate levied for elementary and secondary education in each of the administrative counties of England and Wales for 1943;
(2) whether he will state the amounts from the proceeds of a 1d. rate levied for elementary and secondary education purposes in each of the administrative counties of England and Wales for 1943.
§ Mr. ButlerThe answer to these Questions is contained in a tabular statement, which I will, with the hon. Member's permission, circulate in the OFFICIAL REPORT.
§ Following is the statement:
§ The following table gives (a) the estimated rates as furnished to the Board by the county local education authorities at the beginning of the current financial year. They relate to all education services and not only to those within the purview of the Board. They do not take account of the block grant under the Local Government Act, 1929, which is applicable to local government services generally and is not allocated to particular services; (b) the estimated product of a 1d. rate for elementary and for higher education for the year 1943–44 for each administrative county in England and Wales. Figures of the actual product are not yet available.
1563| L.E.A. | Estimated rate in the £ to be levied in 1943–44. | Product of 1d rate (estimated). | ||||
| Elementary Education. | Higher Education. | Elementary Education. | Higher Education. | |||
| ENGLAND | s. | d. | s. | d. | £ | £ |
| Bedfordshire | 3 | 4.2 | 8.31 | 2,460 | 7,035 | |
| Berkshire | 2 | 2.03 | 6.6 | 5,552 | 7,564 | |
| Buckinghamshire | 2 | 4.72 | 7.71 | 8,890 | 10,132 | |
| Cambridgeshire | 5 | 2.12 | 11.26 | 1,062 | 3,902 | |
| Isle of Ely | 4 | 5.4 | 1 | 9 | 1,208 | 1,208 |
| Cheshire | 2 | 4.7 | 9.32 | 16,881 | 20,366 | |
| Cornwall | 3 | 0.02 | 11.29 | 5,233 | 6,293 | |
| Isles of Scilly | 3 | 2 | 3.32 | 22 | 22 | |
| Cumberland | 4 | 2.5 | 1 | 6.4 | 2,834 | 3,697 |
| Derbyshire | 3 | 7.5 | 1 | 2.9 | 10,148 | 13,262 |
| Devonshire | 2 | 11.71 | 10.68 | 10,221 | 13,027 | |
| Dorsetshire | 2 | 9.5 | 10.25 | 3,577 | 7,262 | |
| Durham | 4 | 10 | 1 | 6.5 | 10,933 | 14,245 |
| Essex | 3 | 2 | 9.5 | 21,850 | 39,465 | |
| Gloucestershire | 2 | 10.5 | 1 | 4.81 | 6,199 | 8,119 |
| Hampshire | 3 | 1.5 | 6.4 | 12,457 | 16,057 | |
| Isle of Wight | 2 | 7.25 | 6.5 | 1,957 | 2,487 | |
| Herefordshire | 4 | 4 | 9 | 1,508 | 2,458 | |
| Hertfordshire | 2 | 5.23 | 7.32 | 17,492 | 18,022 | |
| Huntingdonshire | 3 | 9.5 | 1 | 6.2 | 1,026 | 1,026 |
| Kent | 3 | 1.59 | 1 | 2.22 | 20,140 | 40,019 |
| Lancashire | 3 | 3.25 | 1 | 1.25 | 23,812 | 45,556 |
| Leicestershire | 4 | 0.3 | 1 | 4.73 | 5,426 | 6,266 |
| Lincs. Holland | 4 | 3.5 | 1 | 4 | 900 | 1,400 |
| Lincs. Kesteven | 3 | 2.77 | 1 | 1.74 | 2,158 | 2,158 |
| Lincs. Lindsey | 3 | 8.59 | 1 | 4.48 | 5,014 | 5,014 |
| Middlesex | 2 | 4.72 | 10.04 | 34,022 | 84,282 | |
| Norfolk | 4 | 4.72 | 1 | 0.94 | 4,525 | 5,019 |
| Northamptonshire | 3 | 2.28 | 10.61 | 4,025 | 4,960 | |
| Soke of Peterborough | 3 | 9.3 | 8.8 | 137 | 1,497 | |
| Northumberland | 3 | 11 | 8 | 7,418 | 9,036 | |
| Nottinghamshire | 3 | 7.24 | 1 | 1.42 | 8,292 | 10,377 |
| Oxfordshire | 3 | 6.8 | 1 | 0.2 | 2,685 | 3,130 |
| Rutland | 3 | 1.1 | 6.2 | 448 | 448 | |
| Shropshire | 3 | 5 | 1 | 5.5 | 4,086 | 5,276 |
| Somerset | 3 | 0 | 10 | 8,954 | 11,004 | |
| Staffordshire | 4 | 0.5 | 1 | 1.59 | 8,692 | 13,140 |
| Suffolk East | 4 | 2.97 | 9.24 | 2,880 | 3,660 | |
| Suffolk West | 3 | 9.07 | 8.39 | 1,461 | 1,911 | |
| Surrey | 1 | 11.97 | 6.89 | 42,366 | 53,569 | |
| Sussex, East | 2 | 1.47 | 5.65 | 6,525 | 11,599 | |
| Sussex, West | 1 | 11 | 5.04 | 7,200 | 10,400 | |
| Warwickshire | 2 | 8.8 | 9.6 | 7,612 | 11,509 | |
| Westmorland | 3 | 0.92 | 1 | 3.41 | 1,218 | 1,738 |
| Wiltshire | 2 | 10.41 | 11.16 | 5,415 | 8,075 | |
| Worcestershire | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 5,852 | 7,432 |
| Yorks, East Riding | 3 | 4.25 | 9 | 2,871 | 3,721 | |
| Yorks, North Riding | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0.25 | 6,025 | 7,594 |
| Yorks, West Riding | 4 | 9 | 1 | 6.73 | 21,472 | 30,487 |
| London | 1 | 8.96 | 7.11 | 227,000 | 227,000 | |
| WALES. | ||||||
| Anglesey | 5 | 3.5 | 2 | 8 | 692 | 692 |
| Breconshire | 5 | 4.5 | 2 | 3.3 | 1,122 | 1,122 |
| Caernarvonshire | 4 | 5.5 | 1 | 7.75 | 2,502 | 2,502 |
| Cardiganshire | 5 | 5.8 | 2 | 5.4 | 695 | 695 |
| Carmarthenshire | 8 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 1,266 | 2,166 |
| Denbighshire | 4 | 3.75 | 1 | 10 | 2,626 | 3,256 |
| Flintshire | 3 | 5.02 | 1 | 7.36 | 2,937 | 2,937 |
| Glamorgan | 7 | 1.36 | 3 | 1.1 | 5,960 | 11,025 |
| Merionethshire | 4 | 7 | 2 | 7 | 740 | 740 |
| Monmouthshire | 5 | 11.25 | 2 | 11 | 3,559 | 4,360 |
| Montgomeryshire | 5 | 10.3 | 2 | 6.5 | 679 | 679 |
| Pembrokeshire | 5 | 9.5 | 2 | 9.25 | 920 | 1,092 |
| Radnorshire | 2 | 6.41 | 11.16 | 812 | 812 |