§ Mr. Dobsonasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will list in the Official Report the local education authorities still paying for private school places or assisting in the payment for private school places for non-handicapped pupils; and, in each case, what is the total expenditure and numbers involved in the last year for which figures are available.
§ Mr. William SheltonThis information is not available in the form requested by the hon. Member. The following table details the expenditure in 1980–81 of each local education authority in England on fees and expenses for pupils supported at independent and direct grant schools (other than special schools). The Department does not collect statistics on the numbers of pupils so supported.
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Primary £ Secondary £ Nursery £ GREATER LONDON Barking — 3,962 — Barnet — 367,100 — Bexley — 273,915 — Brent — 155,865 — Bromley — 407,637 — Croydon — 686,383 — Ealing 2,037 48,099 — Enfield 3,473 118,898 — Haringey 1,254 88,069 — Harrow — 279,700 — Havering 650 72,650 — Hillingdon — 29,289 — Hounslow — 58,981 — Kingston-upon-Thames — 278,124 — Merton — 41,335 — Newham — 93,521 — Redbridge — 186,361 — Richmond-upon-Thames — 364,796 — Sutton 1,234 170,603 — Waltham Forest — 7,605 — ILEA 44,610 1,243,272 1,786 METROPOLITAN DISTRICTS Birmingham 1,341 63,599 80,150 Coventry — 144,186 — Dudley — 26,999 — Sandwell 1,676 13,275 — Solihull 13,148 24,604 — Walsall 9,550 16,477 — Wolverhampton — 512,691 — Knowsley — 136,048 — Liverpool — 1,254,124 — St. Helens — 24,289 — Sefton 864 426,371 — Wirral — 727,350 — Bolton — 186,205 — Bury — 229,123 — Manchester — 91,545 — Oldham — 98,276 — Rochdale — 76,649 — Salford 950 64,792 — Stockport — 507,355 —
Primary £ Secondary £ Nursery £ Tameside — 259,418 — Trafford — 1,657,452 — Wigan — 74,397 — Barnsley — 13,319 — Doncaster 2,358 12,962 — Rotherham — — — Sheffield — — — Bradford — 182,806 — Calderdale — 9,169 — Kirklees — 415,105 — Leeds — 110,333 — Wakefield — 45,354 — Gateshead — 69,143 — Newcastle upon Tyne — 133,867 — North Tyneside — 81,550 — South Tyneside 2,025 35,355 — Sunderland — 4,135 — NON-METROPOLITAN COUNTIES Isles of Scilly — 31,488 — Avon — 594,384 — Bedfordshire — 1,018,628 — Berkshire — 729,963 — Buckinghamshire — 11,751 — Cambridgeshire 1,635 428,919 — Cheshire — 2,543,074 — Cleveland — 12,109 — Cornwall — 164,274 — Cumbria — 56,339 — Derbyshire — 276,734 — Devon 3,200 716,562 — Dorset — 225,586 — Durham — — — East Sussex 154 142,323 — Essex 2,066 442,275 — Gloucestershire — 227,491 — Hampshire 137 1,612,335 — Hereford and Worcester — 472,451 — Hertfordshire — 686,063 73,556 Humberside 1,809 69,537 — Isle of Wight — 11,045 — Kent — 917,885 — Lancashire — 1,938,625 — Leicestershire — 166,020 — Lincolnshire — 784,745 — Norfolk — 302,111 — North Yorkshire 7,504 514,477 — Northamptonshire — 55,191 — Northumberland — 51,211 — Nottinghamshire — 130,238 — Oxfordshire 103,600 900,771 — Salop — 41,577 — Somerset — 547,236 — Staffordshire — 112,249 — Suffolk — 459,271 — Surrey 13,271 1,394,380 — Warwickshire — 457,576 — West Sussex — — — Wiltshire — 273,278 — ENGLAND—TOTAL 219,000 32,225,000 156,000