§ Mr. Croninasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if she will give figures for the overall spending per pupil for school education for Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and the Inner London Education Authority in the years 1975–76 and 1976–77.
§ Miss Margaret JacksonThe following figures for recurrent institutional costs per pupil are derived from "Education Estimates Statistics", published jointly by the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy and the Society of County Treasurers, copies of which are in the Library:
side the county: in addition one is in hospital. There are no autistic children awaiting places. The authority does not itself make separate provision for the education of autistic children and does not at present plan to do so.