§ Mr. Barry FieldTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what is the average percentage cost of school transport expressed as a total of each education authority's total education budget.
§ Mr. FallonFor 1989–90, the latest year for which actual spending information is available, each local education authority's spending on transport from home to school expressed as a percentage of its total net recurrent expenditure on education was as follows:
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Home to school transport1 as a percentage of net recurrent expenditure2 on education, 1989–90 LEA Per cent.3 ILEA 0.51 Barking 0.53 Barnet 0.35 Bexley 0.70 Brent 0.72 Bromley 1.21 Croydon 0.89 Ealing 1.54 Enfield n/a Haringey n/a Harrow 1.22 Havering 1.08 Hillingdon 1.34 Hounslow n/a Kingston.upon Thames 0.99 Merton 0.13 Newham 1.54 Redbridge 1.29 Richmond upon Thames 1.07 Sutton 1.28 Waltham Forest 1.11 Birmingham 0.84 Coventry 0.56 Dudley 0.68 Sandwell 0.73 Solihull 1.38 Walsall 0.53 Wolverhampton 0.47 Knowsley 0.56 Liverpool 1.01 St. Helens 0.88 Sefton 0.88 Wirral 1.26 Bolton 0.99 Bury 0.57 Manchester n/a Oldham 0.63 Rochdale 0.92 Salford 1.51 Stockport n/a Tameside 1.24 Trafford 0.99 Wigan 0.60 Barnsley 0.36 Doncaster 0.58 Rotherham 0.83 Sheffield 0.52
LEA Per cent.3 Bradford 0.91 Calderdale 1.04 Kirklees 0.88 Leeds 1.23 Wakefield n/a Gateshead 0.73 Newcastle Upon Tyne 0.77 North Tyneside n/a South Tyneside 0.32 Sunderland 0.45 Isles of Scilly 1.20 Avon 0.46 Bedfordshire 2.21 Berkshire 1.62 Buckinghamshire 2.00 Cambridgeshire 2.93 Cheshire 1.65 Cleveland 0.50 Cornwall 2.34 Cumbria 2.57 Derbyshire 1.49 Devon 2.97 Dorset 2.53 Durham 1.87 East Sussex 1.67 Essex 2.45 Gloucestershire 2.69 Hampshire 1.72 Hereford & Worcester 1.69 Hertfordshire 1.58 Humberside 1.56 Isle of Wight 2.27 Kent 2.96 Lancashire 1.48 Leicestershire 1.94 Lincolnshire 2.53 Norfolk 3.35 North Yorkshire 2.86 Northamptonshire 1.82 Northumberland 2.58 Nottinghamshire 1.08 Oxfordshire 2.65 Shropshire 2.51 Somerset 2.43 Staffordshire 1.46 Suffolk 0.23 Surrey 2.49 Warwickshire 2.14 West Sussex 1.90 Wiltshire 2.30 ENGLAND AVERAGE 1.48 1 Local education authorities' costs of their own drivers and vehicles, and their payments in respect of public transport and contract hire, used to transport pupils from home to nursery, primary and secondary schools and to special education schools or other establishments. 2 Net recurrent expenditure on education includes total expenditure other than costs of financing capital expenditure, less income other than from specific grants. 3 The percentages are derived from authorities' returns of their spending to the Department of the Environment. n/a indicates that a return was not received.