§ Mr. Robin Cookasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science (1) if he will publish in the Official Report a table listing education authorities by the number of discretionary awards issued, their average value and the number per thousand of the population aged 16 years or over for the latest year for which figures are available;
(2) if he will publish in the Official Report the average value of discretionary awards and the number per thousand of the population aged 16 years or over for (a) all the councils under Conservative control and (b) all the councils under Labour control, for the latest year for which figures are available.
§ Mr. WaldenThe table provides, for 1984–85, the provisional number of new, full-value discretionary awards per 1,000 of the average 18 and 19-year-old population for each local education authority in England and Wales. C denotes control by Conservative council; L denotes control by Labour council; N denotes no overall control by either. The average value of such awards is estimated at £2,300.
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Numbers of new, full-value discretionary awards per 1,000 of the average of the 18 and 19-year-old population 1984–85 (provisional) Number Control Barking 8 L Barnet 47 C Bexley 44 C Brent 79 N Bromley 73 C Croydon 61 C Ealing 52 C Enfield 46 C Haringey 45 L Harrow 45 C Havering 42 C Hillingdon 40 C Hounslow 39 L Kingston-upon-Thames 38 C Merton 37 C Newham 35 L Redbridge 35 C Richmond-upon-Thames 36 N Sutton 35 C Waltham Forest 35 N Inner London 35 L Birmingham 30 N Coventry 29 L Dudley 29 N Sandwell 28 L Solihull 28 C Walsall 27 N Wolverhampton 27 L Knowsley 26 L Liverpool 24 N St. Helens 24 L Sefton 24 C Wirral 27 C Bolton 27 N Bury 28 C Manchester 27 L Oldham 26 N Rochdale 27 N Salford 26 L Stockport 27 N Tameside 26 L
Number Control Trafford 26 C Wigan 26 L Barnsley 26 L Doncaster 27 L Rotherham 26 L Sheffield 27 L Bradford 27 N Calderdale 27 N Kirklees 27 N Leeds 26 N Wakefield 26 L Gateshead 26 L Newcastle upon Tyne 26 L North Tyneside 26 L South Tyneside 26 L Sunderland 26 L Isles of Scilly 26 As for Cornwall Avon 34 N Bedfordshire 34 N Berkshire 33 N Buckinghamshire 33 C Cambridgeshire 33 N Cheshire 35 N Cleveland 35 N Cornwall 35 N Cumbria 36 N Derbyshire 35 N Devon 37 N Dorset 37 C Durham 36 L East Sussex 36 C Essex 36 N Gloucestershire 36 N Hampshire 37 N Hereford and Worcester 37 C Hertfordshire 36 N Humberside 37 N Isle of Wight 37 N Kent 38 C Lancashire 38 N Leicestershire 39 N Lincolnshire 39 C Norfolk 39 C North Yorkshire 40 N Northamptonshire 40 N Northumberland 40 N Nottinghamshire 39 N Oxfordshire 39 N Salop 39 N Somerset 39 N Staffordshire 39 N Suffolk 39 C Surrey 39 C Warwickshire 39 N West Sussex 39 C Wiltshire 39 N Clwyd 35 N Dyfed 35 N Gwent 35 L Gwynedd 34 N Mid-Glamorgan 34 L Powys 34 N South Glamorgan 34 L West Glamorgan 34 L