§ Mr. HindTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will tabulate for each local education authority the amount of money retained by the central administration that could have been delegated in the potential schools budget to meet the 85 per cent. requirement; and whether he will estimate how much this would have been for each primary and secondary school in each local education authority.
§ Mr. FallonThe information requested is given in the following table.
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Amounts which would have been delegated to Schools if 1993–94 85 per cent, requirement had been met in 1991–92 (1) (2) (3) LEA Totals £ million Amount per school £ Avon 4.9 11,400 Barnet 1.0 9,000 Bedfordshire 2.6 8,900 Bexley 2.1 24,200 Birmingham 4.3 10,400 Brent 1.0 12,200 Bromley 0.1 800 Cleveland 2.7 10,300 Cornwall 1.1 3,700 Coventry 1.8 14,100 Croydon 3.3 26,600 Derbyshire 2.4 4,700 Doncaster 0.8 5,100 Dudley 0.4 3,700 Durham 4.5 13,000 Ealing 1.5 14,700 Enfield 0.2 2,700 Gateshead 0.6 5,300 Gloucestershire 0.6 2,000 Haringey 0.7 8,000 Harrow 1.2 19,400 Hereford/Worcester 1.6 4,300 Hillingdon 11.7 7,300 Hounslow 1.1 13,500 Humberside 1.0 2,300 Isle of Wight 0.4 5,600 Isles of Scilly 0.02 3,400 Kingston 0.2 4,700
(1) (2) (3) LEA Totals £ million Amount per school £ Kirklees 0.04 200 Knowsley 0.8 10,600 Lancashire 7.9 11,100 Leicestershire 1.8 4,200 Liverpool 3.0 10,700 Merton 0.1 900 Newcastle 1.9 17,300 Newham 4.1 48,000 Norfolk 1.1 2,400 North Tyneside 0.2 2,700 North Yorkshire 1.4 3,100 Nottinghamshire 2.8 5,400 Oldham 1.2 10,600 Oxfordshire 0.4 1,500 Redbridge 1.0 13,600 Richmond 0.8 16,200 Sandwell 2.0 14,200 Staffordshire 0.4 800 St. Helens 0.2 2,500 Surrey 0.8 1,800 Tameside 0.7 6,600 Trafford 0.5 5,200 Wakefield 0.6 3,400 Waltham Forest 2.9 37,100 Westminster 0.05 1,000 Wigan 1.7 11,200 Wiltshire 2.3 6,800 Wolverhampton 2.5 20,200 Total and average 85.8 7,400 Notes:
1. The local education authorities (LEAs) listed are the 56 which are currently delegating less than 85 per cent. of their potential schools budget (PSB).
2. A new requirement from April 1993 is that the proportion of the PSB delegated to schools should be a minimum of 85 per cent. Column 2 gives the amount extra which would have been delegated this year if the LEA had reached the 85 per cent. minimum.
3. Column 3 gives the amount in column 2 expressed as an average amount per school for each LEA, rounded to the nearest £100.