§ Mr. PaiceTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what was the actual amount spent by each education authority on school transport for 1989–90; and if he will give for each authority the percentage of pupils entitled to free school transport and the number of pupil miles provided.
§ Mr. FallonEducation authorities' expenditure on home to school transport in 1989–90 is shown in the table. Information on the number of pupils entitled to free transport and on the number of pupil miles provided is not collected centrally.
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Net recurrent expenditure by LEAs on home to school transport, 1989–90 LEA (£000s) ILEA 5,546 Barking 275 Barnet 313 Bexley 484 Brent 752 Bromley 990 Croydon 925 Ealing 1,756 Enfield N/A Haringey N/A Harrow 860 Havering 808 Hilingdon 1,012 Hounslow N/A Kingston-upon-Thams 445 Merton 66 Newham 1,438 Redbridge 913 Richmond upon Thames 455 Sutton 672 Waltham Forest 935 Birmingham 2,916 Coventry 665 Dudley 666 Sandwell 835 Solihull 895 Walsall 537 Wolverhampton 474 Knowsley 379 Liverpool 1,866 St. Helens 614 Sefton 811 Wirral 1,588 Bolton 897 Bury 355 Manchester N/A Oldham 484
LEA (£000s) Rochdale 734 Salford 1,222 Stockport N/A Tameside 889 Trafford 683 Wigan 682 Barnsley 248 Doncaster 593 Rotherham 738 Sheffield 901 Bradford 1,721 Calderdale 724 Kirklees 1,224 Leeds 2,834 Wakefield N/A Gateshead 473 Newcastle Upon Tyne 762 North Tyneside N/A South Tyneside 186 Sunderland 448 Isles of Scilly 12 Avon 1,358 Bedfordshire 4,016 Berkshire 3,573 Buckinghamshire 5,694 Cambridgeshire 5,913 Cheshire 5,092 Cleveland 1,059 Cornwall 3,230 Cumbria 4,184 Derbyshire 4,873 Devon 8,401 Dorset 4,289 Durham 3,648 East Sussex 2,907 Essex 11,692 Gloucestershire 4,527 Hampshire 7,913 Hereford and Worcester 3,373 Hertfordshire 5,144 Humberside 4,580 Isle of Wight 848 Kent 12,035 Lancashire 7,034 Leicestershire 5,844 Lincolnshire 4,338 Norfolk 6,994 North Yorkshire 6,045 Northamptonshire 3,454 Northumberland 2,594 Nottinghamshire 3,666 Oxfordshire 4,402 Shropshire 3,401 Somerset 3,625 Staffordshire 4,750 Suffolk 422 Surrey 6,754 Warwickshire 3,424 West Sussex 3,497 Wiltshire 4,023 Notes:
1. Expenditure on home to school transport covers local education authorities' costs of their own drivers and vehicles, and their payments in respect or 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. The figures are derived from authorities' returns of their spending to the Department of the Environment. N/A indicates that a return was not received.