HC Deb 24 April 1991 vol 189 cc438-40W
Mr. Fatchett

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will set out, by local education authority, the level of capital spending on school buildings in 1978–79 and 1984–85, and the latest available years.

Mr. Fallon

The readily available information is shown in the table.

Capital spending by LEAs on school buildings
(£ million cash)
LEA 1978–79 1984–85 1988–89
Barking .5 2.1 1.3
Barnet 1.4 .9 2.6
Bexley 1.3 2.2 3.2
Brent 1.3 1.8 .6
Bromley .7 2.4 6.6
Croydon .8 1.3 5.0
Ealing 1.2 .7 1.6
Enfleld 1.6 .7 4.0
Haringey .9 1.0 3.3
Harrow 1.3 .9 2.6
Havering .4 .9 3.4
Hillingdon 2.1 1.4 7.8
Hounslow 2.0 2.5 5.5
Kingston .2 .4 1.7
Merton .7 .9 2.4
Newham 2.5 4.5 2.9
Redbridge 1.3 1.8 4.0
Richmond .7 1.2 .8
Sutton .3 1.3 3.1
Waltham Forrest 1.5 .9 6.4
ILEA 12.7 10.4 21.3
Birmingham 2.8 8.3 4.2
Coventry 2.3 1.5 8.2
Dudley 1.5 4.0 3.6
Sandwell 1.8 1.3 .6
Solihull 1.2 1.1 2.1
Walsall 2.4 2.1 2.8
Wolverhampton 2.0 1.0 1.9
Knowsley .8 1.3 1.2
Liverpool 1.9 1.6 9.7
St. Helens 2.5 1.4 1.5
Sefton 1.4 1.2 1.7
Wirral .8 2.2 4.7
Bolton 1.0 1.3 2.2
Bury 1.8 .6 1.0
Manchester 1.1 5.3 8.6
Oldham 1.0 1.5 2.2
Rochdale 2.0 1.2 2.5
Salford 1.9 1.8 3.3
Stockport .8 .9 2.8
Tameside 1.2 1.8 2.4
Trafford .4 .6 1.4
Wigan 2.4 1.8 3.7
Barnsley 2.0 .1 1.7
Doncaster 1.5 .7 .8
Rotherham 1.6 1.3 2.2
Sheffield 1.6 9.1 9.0
Bradford 2.2 11.2 10.6
Calderdale 1.3 1.5 3.3
Kirklees 1.9 4.0 2.9
Leeds 3.9 5.2 15.1
Wakefield 2.3 1.3 5.6
Gateshead 1.1 2.4 3.0
Newcastle 1.4 1.6 4.4
North Tyne 1.2 1.3 2.8
South Tyne 1.4 3.3 2.5
Sunderland 1.4 2.4 4.9
Isles of Scilly .1 0.0 n/a
Avon 3.0 4.3 6.5
Bedfordshire 5.7 2.3 4.4
Berkshire 4.9 9.0 n/a
Buckinghamshire 4.1 8.6 6.3
Cambridgeshire 5.9 6.8 15.4
Cheshire 10.4 8.3 21.9
Cleveland 3.3 3.5 5.1
Cornwall 4.3 3.3 6.5
Cumbria 1.7 4.0 5.2
Derbyshire 6.1 8.5 11.5
Devon 4.0 6.7 11.3
Dorset 3.4 3.2 3.5
Durham 2.8 3.2 3.7
East Sussex 2.8 6.3 10.2
Essex 11.6 7.1 n/a

LEA 1978–79 1984–85 1988–89
Gloucestershire 2.9 4.2 5.8
Hampshire 11.6 16.1 24.6
Hereford and Worcester 5.1 2.9 n/a
Hertfordshire 3.1 8.0 10.7
Humberside 7.7 6.0 11.1
Isle of Wight 1.2 .6 1.8
Kent 9.2 5.3 11.4
Lancashire 6.1 5.0 10.6
Leicestershire 4.6 4.9 10.2
Lincolnshire 3.1 5.2 6.7
Norfolk 4.9 4.6 6.8
North Yorkshire 4.5 8.5 6.1
Northamptonshire 5.3 4.4 4.8
Northumberland 2.7 1.3 1.7
Nottinghamshire 5.9 3.9 n/a
Oxfordshire 1.4 2.3 6.1
Shropshire 3.5 2.2 4.2
Somerset 1.8 2.5 n/a
Staffordshire 8.4 5.5 7.7
Suffolk 5.1 4.0 10.1
Surrey 5.1 9.1 18.4
Warwickshire 2.5 2.4 3.3
West Sussex 2.2 5.4 7.2
Wiltshire 1.8 5.5 3.7

Notes:

1. n/a indicates data not available.

2. Expenditure is given in cash terms, rounded to the nearest £0.1 million; it includes provision from within the Department of the Environment's urban programme, and covers nursery, primary, secondary and special education.