HC Deb 04 June 1991 vol 192 cc179-80W
Mr. Fatchett

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science further to his reply of 24 April,Official Report, columns 438–40, if he will give in 1990 prices, by local education authority, the level of capital spending on school buildings for 1978–79, 1984–85 and 1988–89.

Mr. Fallon

The following table shows the information requested:

Capital spending by LEAs on school buildings 1990 prices
£ million
LEA 1978–79 1984–85 1988–89
Barking 1.3 3.0 1.5
Barnet 3.3 1.3 3.0
Bexley 3.3 3.1 3.7
Brent 3.3 2.5 0.7
Bromley 1.8 3.4 7.6
Croydon 2.0 1.8 5.7
Ealing 3.0 1.0 1.8
Enfield 4.0 1.0 4.6
Haringey 2.3 1.4 3.8
Harrow 3.3 1.3 3.0
Havering 1.0 1.3 3.9
Hillingdon 5.3 2.0 8.9
Hounslow 5.0 3.5 6.3
Kingston 0.5 0.6 1.9
Merton 1.8 1.3 2.8
Newham 6.3 6.4 3.3
Redbridge 3.3 2.5 4.6
Richmond 1.8 1.7 0.9
Sutton 0.8 1.8 3.6
Waltham Forest 3.8 1.3 7.3
ILEA 32.0 14.7 24.4
Birmingham 7.1 11.7 4.8
Coventry 5.8 2.1 9.4
Dudley 3.8 5.7 4.1
Sandwell 4.5 1.8 0.7
Solihull 3.0 1.6 2.4
Walsall 6.1 3.0 3.2
Wolverhampton 5.0 1.4 2.2
Knowsley 2.0 1.8 1.4
Liverpool 4.8 2.3 11.1
St. Helens 6.3 2.0 1.7
Sefton 3.5 1.7 1.9

LEA 1978–79 1984–85 1988–89
Wirral 2.0 3.1 5.4
Bolton 2.5 1.8 2.5
Bury 4.5 0.8 1.1
Manchester 2.8 7.5 9.9
Oldham 2.5 2.1 2.5
Rochdale 5.0 1.7 2.9
Salford 4.8 2.5 3.8
Stockport 2.0 1.3 3.2
Tameside 3.0 2.5 2.8
Trafford 1.0 0.8 1.6
Wigan 6.1 2.5 4.2
Barnsley 5.0 0.1 1.9
Doncaster 3.8 1.0 0.9
Rotherham 4.0 1.8 2.5
Sheffield 4.0 12.9 10.3
Bradford 5.5 15.8 12.1
Calderdale 3.3 2.1 3.8
Kirklees 4.8 5.7 3.3
Leeds 9.8 7.4 17.3
Wakefield 5.8 1.8 6.4
Gateshead 2.8 3.4 3.4
Newcastle 3.5 2.3 5.0
North Tyne 3.0 1.8 3.2
South Tyne 3.5 4.7 2.9
Sunderland 3.5 3.4 5.6
Isles of Scilly 0.3 0.0 n/a
Avon 7.6 6.1 7.5
Bedfordshire 14.4 3.3 5.0
Berkshire 12.4 12.7 n/a
Bucks 10.3 12.2 7.2
Cambridgeshire 14.9 9.6 17.7
Cheshire 26.2 11.7 25.1
Cleveland 8.3 5.0 5.8
Cornwall 10.8 4.7 7.5
Cumbria 4.3 5.7 6.0
Derbyshire 15.4 12.0 13.2
Devon 10.1 9.5 13.0
Dorset 8.6 4.5 4.0
Durham 7.1 4.5 4.2
East Sussex 7.1 8.9 11.7
Essex 29.3 10.0 n/a
Gloucs 7.3 5.9 6.6
Hampshire 29.3 22.8 28.2
Hereford and Worcs 12.9 4.1 n/a
Hertfordshire 7.8 11.3 12.3
Humberside 19.4 8.5 12.7
Isle of Wight 3.0 0.8 2.1
Kent 23.2 7.5 13.1
Lancashire 15.4 7.1 12.1
Leicestershire 11.6 6.9 11.7
Lincolnshire 7.8 7.4 7.7
Norfolk 12.4 6.5 7.8
North Yorks 11.4 12.0 7.0
Northants 13.4 6.2 5.5
Northumberland 6.8 1.8 1.9
Nottinghamshire 14.9 5.5 n/a
Oxfordshire 3.5 3.3 7.0
Shropshire 8.8 3.1 4.8
Somerset 4.5 3.5 n/a
Staffordshire 21.2 7.8 8.8
Suffolk 12.9 5.7 11.6
Surrey 12.9 12.9 21.1
Warwickshire 6.3 3.4 3.8
West Sussex 5.5 7.6 8.3
Wiltshire 4.5 7.8 4.2

Notes:

1. n/a indicates data not available.

2. expenditure is given in 1990–91 prices, rounded to the nearest £0.1 m; it includes provision from within the Department of the Environment's Urban Programme, and covers nursery, primary, secondary and special education.