§ Mr. PaiceTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what information he has on (i) the amount of expenditure made by each local authority on nursery education in nursery schools, nursery classes and reception classes and (ii) the average unit cost per place in each local authority.
§ Mrs. RumboldThe latest available data on expenditure by local authorities on nursery schools comes from returns made to the Department of the Environment on spending in 1986–87. The details are set out in the table. Subsequent returns have not separately identified spending on nursery schools, nursery classes or reception classes. The DES chapter of the annual public expenditure White Paper shows the sums within outturn spending attributed to provision for under-fives nationally, and the allowance within grant settlements for such spending—see tables 11.2 and 11.6 of Cm. 1011.
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Maintained nursery schools Net institutional expenditure1—1986–87 (cash) Total expenditure Cost per pupil2 (£000) (£) Barking — — Barnet 344 1,295 Bexley 124 1,250 Brent 491 2,220 Bromley — — Croydon 339 1,350 Ealing 512 1,785 Enfield — — Haringey 208 1,015 Harrow — — Havering — — Hillingdon 81 1,360 Hounslow — — Kingston upon Thames 208 1,375 Merton 53 1,835 Newham 871 1,685 Redbridge — — Richmond upon Thames 45 1,240 Sutton 169 1,410 Waltham Forest 290 1,590 ILEA 7,623 2,455 Birmingham 1,987 1,235 Coventry 345 1,260 Dudley 435 1,845
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Total expenditure Cost per pupil1 (£000) (£) Sandwell 205 1,270 Solihull — — Walsall 541 1,235 Wolverhampton 438 1,065 Knowsley — — Liverpool 548 1,435 St. Helens 60 1,470 Sefton 195 1,215 Wirral 230 1,790 Bolton 434 1,220 Bury 142 1,335 Manchester 929 1,990 Oldham — — Rochdale 666 1,375 Salford 1,166 1,660 Stockport 633 1,265 Tameside 327 1,735 Trafford — — Wigan 154 1,355 Barnsley 112 1,275 Doncaster — — Rotherham 230 1,115 Sheffield 744 1,640 Bradford 611 1,730 Calderdale 90 1,400 Kirklees 422 1,220 Leeds 211 1,270 Wakefield 341 1,440 Gateshead 55 1,590 Newcastle-upon-Tyne 862 1,610 North Tyneside 219 1,200 South Tyneside 475 1,260 Sunderland 715 1,340 Isles of Scilly — — Avon 1,628 1,285 Bedfordshire 1,021 1,195 Berkshire 1,516 1,390 Buckinghamshire 325 1,265 Cambridgeshire 554 1,430 Cheshire 525 1,215 Cleveland 87 1,115 Cornwall 94 1,275 Cumbria 591 1,485 Derbyshire 938 1,415 Devon 158 1,025 Dorset — — Durham 1,917 1,460 East Sussex 199 1,350 Essex 184 1,355 Gloucestershire — —
Total expenditure Cost per pupil2 (£000) (£) Hampshire 157 1,215 Hereford and Worcester — — Hertfordshire 1,337 1,485 Humberside 1,481 2,515 Isle of Wight — — Kent 63 1,575 Lancashire 2,481 1,405 Leicestershire 31 1,220 Lincolnshire 240 1,205 Norfolk 243 1,235 North Yorkshire 243 1,300 Northamptonshire 386 1,280 Northumberland 213 2,395 Nottinghamshire 514 1,530 Oxfordshire 385 1,285 Shropshire 111 1,390 Somerset — — Staffordshire 1,676 1,165 Suffolk 103 1,165 Surrey 355 1,420 Warwickshire 456 1,240 West Sussex 230 990 Wiltshire — — 1 Net Institutional Expenditure includes the cost of salaries and wages, premises and certain supplies and services. It does not include the cost of school meal, central administration and inspection, dept charges or revenue contributions to capital outlay. 2 The figures are based on local education authority expenditure returns to Department of the Environment and pupil number returns to Department of Education and Science.