§ Mr. Rookerasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will publish in the Official Report details of educational maintenance allowances updating his answer to the hon. Member for Norfolk, North (Mr. Howell), on 8 June 1981, Official Report, c. 51 to 63.
§ Mr. William SheltonThe information contained in local education authorities' expenditure returns for 1980–81 is as follows:
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Expenditure by Local Education Authorities in England in 1980–81 on Allowances to Pupils over Compulsory School Age attending Schools £000s Inner London Education Authority *1,759 London Boroughs Barking 4 Barnet 9 Bexley 9 Brent 27 Bromley 15 Croydon 11 Ealing 35 Enfield 4 Haringey 31 Harrow 14 Havering 8 Hillingdon — Hounslow — Kingston upon Thames 8 Merton 8 Newham 17 Redbridge 5 Richmond upon Thames 1 Sutton — Waltham Forest — West Midlands Birmingham 52 Coventry 23 Dudley — Sandwell 15 Solihull — Walsall 46 Wolverhampton 25 352W
£000s Merseyside Knowsley 45 Liverpool 165 St. Helens 9 Sefton — Wirral 37 Greater Manchester Bolton 48 Bury 20 Manchester 209 Oldham 17 Rochdale 22 Salford 30 Stockport 15 Tameside 17 Trafford 22 Wigan 26 South Yorkshire Barnsley 11 Doncaster 16 Rotherham 12 Sheffield 104 West Yorkshire Bradford 38 Calderdale 13 Kirklees — Leeds — Wakefield 22 Tyne and Wear Gateshead 12 Newcastle upon Tyne 51 North Tyneside 34 South Tyneside 16 Sunderland 70 Non Metropolitan Counties Isles of Scilly — Avon 96 Bedfordshire 22 Berkshire 5 Buckinghamshire 11 Cambridgeshire 39 Cheshire 3 Cleveland — Cornwall 6 Cumbria 14 Derbyshire 25 Devon 45 Dorset 46 Durham — East Sussex 33 Essex 72 Gloucestershire 8 Hampshire 231 Hereford and Worcester — Hertfordshire 41 Humberside 40 Isle of Wight 2 Kent — Lancashire 103 Leicestershire 5 Lincolnshire 16 Norfolk 2 North Yorkshire 25 Northamptonshire 4 Northumberland 15 Nottinghamshire 101 Oxfordshire — Salop 17 Somerset 14 Staffordshire 3 Suffolk 16
£000s Surrey 21 Warwickshire — West Sussex — Wiltshire 31 England Total 4,319 * The corresponding revised figure for 1979–80 was £1,337,000.