§ Mr. Ashdownasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will publish a list showing for each local education authority in England (a) the estimated cost of primary school capital projects other than provision of basic need contained in the plans submitted to his Department for 1987–88 and (b) the estimated cost of primary school capital projects for basic need contained in the plans submitted to his Department for 1987–88; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. DunnThe expenditure plans submitted by local education authorities are not presented in a form that allows this information to be extracted.
§ Mr. Ashdownasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what information was received by his Department in response to the circular letter to local education authorities in mid-1986 seeking information in connection with the authorities' plans for education capital expenditure in 1987–88 on (a) numbers of substandard places in unremodelled primary schools constructed before 1903 and (b) numbers of such places considered to serve areas of educational and social disadvantage; if he will publish such information as he has available; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. DunnThe information requested is set out in the following table. It does not present a reliable national 471W picture of the incidence of substandard places or of areas of educational and social disadvantage for several reasons. For example, a number of authorities failed to supply any information, or supplied only a part of what was requested. In addition, authorities themselves are asked to judge what constitutes an area of educational and social disadvantage: the information at (b) cannot therefore be taken as consistent or comparable.
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Local Education Authority (a) (b) Sub-standard places in unremodelled primary schools constructed before 1903 Number of such places in areas of educational and social disadvantage Barking nil nil Barnet 1,180 nil Bexley 1,100 nil Brent nil nil Bromley nil nil Croydon nil nil Ealing1 n.a. n.a. Enfield 1,924 1,924 Haringey1 n.a. n.a. Harrow1 n.a. n.a. Havering 1,377 nil Hillingdon1 n.a. n.a. Hounslow 1,196 nil Kingston-upon-Thames 187 nil Merton1 n.a. n.a. Newham 3,500 3,500 Redbridge 348 n.a. Richmond- upon-Thames 490 nil Sutton 156 n.a. Waltham Forest 3,230 2,630 Inner London 57,376 27,024 Birmingham 8,600 7,000 Coventry 1,725 1,295 Dudley 3,500 1,000 Sandwell 2,253 1,866 Solihull nil nil Walsall 3,200 3,200 Wolverhampton 1,170 850 Knowsley nil nil Liverpool1 n.a. n.a. St. Helens 755 351 Sefton 1,696 372 Wirral 990 990 Bolton2 3,500 2,050 Bury 2,002 692 Manchester 1,830 1,220 Oldham 1,883 1,661 Rochdale 725 nil Salford nil nil Stockport 2,620 450 Tameside 1,600 1,600 Trafford 380 nil Wigan 1,100 600 Barnsley 535 nil Doncaster1 nil nil Rotherham 3,150 765 Sheffield 5,620 2,705 Bradford 18,810 9,240 Calderdale 4,960 1,230 Kirklees 2,000 400 Leeds 14,943 1,892
Local Education Authority (a) (b) Sub-standard places in unremodelled primary schools constructed before 1903 Number of such places in areas of educational and social disadvantage Wakefield 2,597 1,473 Gateshead1 n.a. n.a. Newcastle upon Tyne 1,100 240 North Tyneside 680 nil South Tyneside 1,417 541 Sunderland 2,394 786 Isles of Scilly nil nil Avon 27,343 4,240 Bedfordshire 2,181 556 Berkshire 3,712 1,197 Buckinghamshire 635 nil Cambridgeshire 6,600 950 Cheshire 5,291 743 Cleveland 1,714 1,714 Cornwall 12,780 3,210 Cumbria 1,740 583 Derbyshire 23,443 5,463 Devon 13,300 680 Dorset1 n.a. n.a. Durham 3,700 230 East Sussex 4,600 330 Essex1 n.a. n.a. Gloucestershire 12,892 198 Hampshire 23,991 4,305 Hereford and Worcester 8,775 nil Hertfordshire nil nil Humberside 6,103 1,275 Isle of Wight 1,183 83 Kent 28,042 88 Lancashire 23,900 5,170 Leicestershire 13,700 4,885 Lincolnshire 5,053 nil Norfolk 8,868 nil North Yorkshire 7,000 1,800 Northamptonshire 2,221 n.a. Northumberland 3,049 1,563 Nottinghamshire 6,813 1,710 Oxfordshire 692 nil Shropshire 3,000 190 Somerset2 7,500 1,750 Staffordshire 5,153 685 Suffolk 7,710 600 Surrey 4,855 230 Warwickshire1 n.a. n.a. West Sussex 1,850 nil Wiltshire 7,984 1,200 1 These authorities did not complete the relevant section of the form in their responses either to the letter of 30 June 1986 or to that of 18 December 1985. 2 These authorities did not supply the information requested in their response to the Department's letter of 30 June 1986; the figures given were supplied in response to the letter of 18 December 1985.