HC Deb 23 June 1988 vol 135 cc633-4W
Mr. Pike

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will provide a breakdown of the distribution to individual local education authorities of the additional resources for GCSE-related expenditure of(a) the sum for secondary school libraries and (b) the general allocation.

Mrs. Rumbold

The table gives the amount allocated to each local education authority within the education support grant for 1986–87 for the additional costs of books and equipment associated with the introduction of the GCSE. The subsequent distribution of these resources is the responsibility of the individual authorities. These amounts do not include provision within the LEA training grants scheme in 1988–89 of £15 million for in-service training related to the assessment of achievement including GCSE; nor do they include the additions to rate support grant in respect of GCSE-related expenditure, of £90 million in 1987–88 and £77 million in 1988–89.

Category XIII—E.S.G. paid 1986/87
GCSE Grant paid £
301 Barking 30,100
302 Barnet 45,491
303 Bexley 48,160
304 Brent 34,523
305 Bromley 50,250
306 Croydon 60,760
307 Ealing 42,350
308 Enfield 51,653
309 Haringey 26,877
310 Harrow 33,110
311 Havering 53,900
312 Hillingdon 45,010
313 Hounslow 38,290
314 Kingston-Upon-Thames 24,500
315 Merton 27,025
316 Newham 36,346
317 Redbridge 40,530
318 Richmond-Upon-Thames 21,700
319 Sutton 34,553
320 Waltham Forest 48,160
427 ILEA 351,610
330 Birmingham 234,850
331 Coventry 65,170

GCSE Grant paid £
332 Dudley 69,860
333 Sandwell 70,000
334 Solihull 50,820
335 Walsall 67,410
336 Wolverhampton 57,343
340 Knowsley 40,040
341 Liverpool 20,700
342 St. Helens 45,500
344 Wirral 71,890