HC Deb 14 June 1991 vol 192 cc679-80W
Mr. Norris

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will list those local education authorities which, in the most recent year for which information is available(a) had introduced full budgetary delegation to (i) all primary schools and (ii) all secondary schools and (b) had introduced school funding (i) fully in accordance with their published formula, (ii) partly in accordance with the formula and partly in accordance with historical principles and (iii) only in accordance with historical principles.

Mr. Fallon

The following table lists those local education authorities whose primary or secondary schools have full delegated management as of 1 April 1991.

With regard to formula funding, the vast majority of LEAs have taken advantage of the transitional arrangements which allow for the change from historic to pure formula funding to take place gradually in the period up to 1 April 1994.

The detailed information on each LEA is not immediately available. I shall write to my hon. Friend.

(1) Fully delegated budgets to primary schools by 1991–92
Westminster Coventry
Brent Solihull
Harrow Bolton
Hillingdon Bradford
Merton Kent
Richmond

(2) Fully delegated budgets to secondary schools by 1991–92
Westminster Bedfordshire
Barking Berkshire
Barnet Buckinghamshire
Brent Cambridgeshire
Bromley Cheshire
Croydon Cornwall
Ealing Cumbria
Haringey Devon
Harrow Dorset
Hillingdon Durham
Hounslow East Sussex
Kingston Essex
Merton Gloucestershire
Redbridge Hampshire
Richmond Humberside
Sutton Isle of Wight
Coventry Kent
Knowsley Lancashire
Sefton Lincolnshire
Wirral North Yorkshire
Bolton Nottinghamshire
Manchester Oxfordshire
Doncaster Somerset
Sheffield Suffolk
Bradford Surrey

Gateshead Warwickshire
South Tyneside West Sussex
Isles of Scilly Wiltshire