Grant-related Expenditure

HC Deb 19 January 1982 vol 16 cc97-100W

Mr. Christopher Price

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will publish for each local education authority in England and Wales that element of the grant-related expenditure appertaining to education for 1982–83.

Sir Keith Joseph

Provisional grant-related expenditure assessments underlying the 1982–83 rate support grant settlement for English local authorities were announced by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Environment on 21 December, and they will be published in the Rate Support Grant Report 1982–83, which will be laid before the House shortly. The education components of these provisional assessments are set out in the following table, together with the corresponding figures for 1981–82. The latter figures, with an explanatory note, were published with the minutes of evidence taken on 17 December 1980 by the Education, Science and Arts Committee. All figures are in cash. Changes from 1981–82 to 1982–83 assessments reflect changes in local authorities' circumstances—for example, numbers of pupils—and also certain changes in the methodology for assessing education GREs, including the assessment for nursery education and the allowance made for educating children with additional needs.

While the figures represent the Government's best judgment of the expenditure that each local authority would—given its particular circumstances—need to incur in 1981–82 and 1982–83 in order to provide a level of service comparable to that of other authorities, they are necessarily approximate. The figures have been aggregated with figures for other services to derive a total GRE for each authority which itself is the basis for the calculation of an un-hypothecated block grant. The education GREs are derived from the total which the Government think it appropriate for local authorities to spend on education, but it is for local authorities to determine the amounts to be spent on individual services.

Authority	Education GRE1981–82 £ million	Education GRE 1982–83 £ million
London
Barking	28.9	30.9
Barnet	51.4	57.1
Bexley	43.6	47.0
Brent	54.7	64.0
Bromley	53.5	56.8
Croydon	63.2	69.1
Ealing	56.7	64.6
Enfield	50.7	55.2
Haringey	43.6	49.8
Harrow	36.3	39.5
Havering	48.4	51.1
Hillingdon	44.4	48.5
Hounslow	39.1	43.8

Authority	Education GRE 1981–82 £ million	Education GRE 1982–83 £ million
Kingston-upon-Thames	22.8	24.6
Merton	29.4	32.3
Newham	47.8	56.0
Redbridge	41.0	44.6
Richmond-upon-Thames	23.8	25.6
Sutton	31.2	33.1
Waltham Forest	42.5	48.2
Inner London Education Authority	459.3	516.7
West Midland
Birmingham	215.4	240.6
Coventry	69.2	75.2
Dudley	56.9	62.2
Sandwell	64.5	72.0
Solihull	43.5	46.9
Walsall	57.4	63.2
Wolverhampton	57.2	64.9
Merseyside
Knowsley	42.7	45.2
Liverpool	107.8	116.5
St. Helens	41.1	44.6
Sefton	61.7	64.5
Wirral	68.8	74.3
Greater Manchester
Bolton	54.5	59.8
Bury	35.0	38.3
Manchester	97.2	106.5
Oldham	48.4	49.6
Rochdale	43.6	48.3
Salford	50.0	53.7
Stockport	57.7	61.7
Tameside	44.4	47.7
Trafford	47.2	49.3
Wigan	64.1	69.6
South Yorkshire
Barnsley	45.3	48.6
Doncaster	60.0	64.8
Rotherham	52.9	57.8
Sheffield	104.0	112.2
West Yorkshire
Bradford	95.1	105.8
Calderdale	38.3	41.5
Kirklees	77.3	86.8
Leeds	140.8	153.3
Wakefield	61.6	66.9
Tyne and Wear
Gateshead	40.5	42.9
Newcastle upon Tyne	50.8	54.7
North Tyneside	36.8	40.1
South Tyneside	34.4	37.5
Sunderland	60.0	65.1
Non-Metropolitan Counties
Avon	165.9	179.0
Befordshire	102.1	117.0
Berkshire	133.4	147.0
Buckinghamshire	112.7	125.8
Cambridgeshire	109.1	121.1
Cheshire	194.5	208.9
Cleveland	125.2	136.1
Cornwall	78.4	85.3
Cumbria	95.9	101.5
Derbyshire	174.2	189.0
Devon	164.9	179.1
Dorset	96.8	106.7
Durham	116.9	123.5
East Sussex	101.3	109.2
Essex	283.2	3.7.9
Gloucestershire	96.3	103.7
Hampshire	280.0	304.7

Authority	Education GRE 1981–82 £ million	Education GRE 1982–83 £ million
Hereford and Worcester	123.1	133.4
Herfordshire	198.2	212.3
Humberside	173.9	188.3
Isle of Wight	20.7	23.1
Kent	281.1	304.4
Lancashire	273.7	294.6
Leicestershire	169.5	186.2
Lincolnshire	108.1	116.0
Norfolk	126.1	136.6
North Yorkshire	128.5	137.2
Northamptonshire	104.9	117.5
Northumberland	57.1	63.0
Nottinghamshire	201.6	212.7
Oxfordshire	99.3	108.1
Shropshire	77.0	83.8
Somerset	79.2	85.2
Staffordshire	199.8	217.4
Suffolk	106.7	117.9
Surrey	173.6	185.0
Warwickshire	96.0	104.2
West Sussex	110.3	117.5
Wiltshire	102.6	11.2

Works of Art allocated during the half year ended 31 December 1981
Item	Date allocation announced	Recipient in-stitution	Executors'/Testator's wishes
Six drawings from the Princess Gate Collection:	3 July 1981	Home House Society	Home House Society
"The Dream of Human Life" by Michelangelo;
"Christ on the Cross" by Michelangelo;
"Landscape with Two Mules" by Pieter Brueghel the Elder;
"Landscape with an Artist Sketching" by Pieter Brueghel the Elder;
"Alpine Landscape" by Pieter Brueghel the Elder; and
"View of Antwerp from the Sea" by Pieter Brueghel the Elder.

Works of Art accepted in lieu of tax and awaiting allocation
Item	Date acceptance announced
Papers of the First Duke of Wellington	20 February 1979
A painting by Elsheimer, "The Death of Procris"	25 July 1979
A collection of Hebrew Manuscripts	* 30 April 1980
A collection of 18th and 19th century silver, silver-gilt and gold plate	30 April 1980
A painting by David Teniers the Younger, "A Yard of an inn, with peasants playing bowls"	3 April 1981
A painting by Philips Wouverman, "A Stag Hunt"	3 April 1981
A painting by Gillis Peeters and David Teniers the Younger, "A scene in a Flemish Village"	3 April 1981
A portrait by Gainsborough Dupont of Henry Fiennes Pelham Clinton, then 9th Earl of Lincoln	3 April 1981
A portrait by William Hoare of the Rt hon. Henry Pelham, in Chancellor's Robes	3 April 1981
A portrait by William Hoare of Thomas Pelham Holles, 1st Pelham Duke of Newcastle in Garter Robes	3 April 1981
Two watercolours by J. M. W. Turner, "Flint Castle" and "Salisbury"	22 July 1981
* Some of the manuscripts and the tombstones have since been allocated (8 January 1982) to the British Museum; the other manuscripts have gone to the British Library, Leeds; the John Rylands University Library of Manchester; The Bodleian Library, Oxford; Cambridge University Library.

Mr. Faulds

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science whether, further to his written answer to the