§ Mr. NorrisTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what, for each authority in which there is a grant-maintained school, is the average sum per pupil, in the primary or secondary phases, as appropriate, attributed in the calculations of annual maintenance grants to central services(a) for 1989–90 and (b) for 1990–91.
§ Mr. EggarThis information is given in the table:
Central costs component of annual maintenance grant for grant maintained schools Local education authority Per pupil amount (£) 1989–90 Per pupil amount (£) 1990–91 Barnet 186 251 Bedfordshire 203 285 Berkshire — 247 Birmingham 257 351 Bolton 163 249 Brent — 380 Buckinghamshire — 273 Cheshire 241 318 Derbyshire — 340 Devon 245 389 Dorset — 245 Dudley 274 354 Gloucestershire — 234 Hertfordshire — 225 Hillingdon — 374 Kensington and Chelsea — 661 Kent 166 238 Kirklees 218 268 Lancashire 217 269 Leicestershire — 311 Lincolnshire 222 190 Liverpool 315 193 Northamptonshire — 242 Shropshire — 264 Southwark — 520 Surrey — 296 Sutton 243 331 Tameside 193 262 Wolverhampton — 323 Notes:
1. Figures are full-year equivalent for secondary schools. There 323W are currently no grant-maintained primary schools in operation.
2. Apportionment of costs between school and local education authority level will have changed in some local education authorities between 1989–90 and 1990–91 as a result of the introduction on 1 April 1990 of financial delegation schemes for local management of schools.
3. Figures for Avon, Brent and Hammersmith have yet to be finalised.