§ Ms. ArmstrongTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will list in rank order the amount spent by each local education authority on special needs.
§ Mr. FallonFor 1988–89, the latest year for which information on actual spending is available from local education authorities' returns, their spending on special schools, home and hospital tuition, child guidance and educational psychological services was as shown in the table. These figures exclude expenditure to meet the special needs of pupils in primary and secondary schools, and of further education students, as information on this expenditure is not collected separately.
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Local education authority Net recurrent expenditure £000's1 ILEA 63,950 Hampshire 32,481 Lancashire 30,451 Kent 26,858 Essex 26,628 Avon 22,555 Nottinghamshire 21,240 Birmingham 20,638 Surrey 19,462 Hertfordshire 18,937 Derbyshire 18,155 Cheshire 16,803 Berkshire 16,504 Staffordshire 15,838 Devon 15,424 East Sussex 13,107 Liverpool 12,817 Buckinghamshire 12,691 Gloucestershire 12,565 Humberside 12,315 Cleveland 12,236 Leicestershire 11,637 North Yorkshire 11,480 Bradford 10,868 Dorset 10,760 Warwickshire 10,491 Norfolk 10,302 Northamptonshire 10,267 Cambridgeshire 10,230 Hereford and Worcester 9,906 West Sussex 9,830 Durham 9,583 Leeds 9,406 Bedfordshire 9,218 Lincolnshire 9,134 Wiltshire 8,981 Ealing 8,526 Oxfordshire 8,481 Somerset 8,424 Croydon 8,408 Sheffield 8,244 Suffolk 8,177 Wirral 7,941
Local education authority Net recurrent expenditure £000's1 Enfield 7,578 Sandwell 6,863 Coventry 6,768 Hounslow 6,667 Shropshire 6,642 Kirklees 6,281 Cumbria 6,178 Rotherham 6,115 Newcastle-upon-Tyne 6,035 Wigan 6,014 Waltham Forest 5,548 Wolverhampton 5,523 Newham 5,297 Barnet 5,189 Northumberland 5,172 Brent 5,157 Stockport 5,049 Redbridge 4,992 Hillingdon 4,960 Doncaster 4,854 Cornwall 4,847 Bolton 4,797 Bexley 4,790 Rochdale 4,738 Salford 4,701 Dudley 4,636 Sefton 4,631 St. Helens 4,623 Bromley 4,540 Sunderland 4,502 Harrow 4,449 North Tyneside 4,436 Solihull 4,137 Merton 3,989 Oldham 3,850 Knowsley 3,840 Walsall 3,785 Tameside 3,680 Bury 3,551 Havering 3,343 Sutton 3,321 Gateshead 3,315 Barking 2,963 Trafford 2,848 Kingston-upon-Thames 2,681 South Tyneside 2,651 Calderdale 2,376 Barnsley 2,321 Richmond-upon-Thames 2,133 Isle of Wight 1,700 Haringey n/a Manchester n/a Wakefield n/a 1 Excluding financing costs of capital expenditure, school meals, income from specific grants, and central education department administration costs.