HC Deb 23 June 1992 vol 210 cc126-8W
Mr. Illsley

To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many educational psychologists are employed in(a) Barnsley, (b) Doncaster and (c) Rotherham expressed as a specific figure and as a percentage of the national average.

Mr. Forth

The table gives in column 1 full-time equivalent numbers of educational psychologists em-ployed by the local education authorities in question in January 1992. Column 2 expresses these as a percentage of the average number employed per English LEA. The figures are provided in the form requested, but are not weighted to take account of variations between LEAs in the numbers of children of school age for which they are responsible.

Shire counties 1989–90
Net institutional expenditure per secondary pupil 1989–90(£) Percentage of leavers with five or more GCSE/O/CSE grades A to C Rank (passes)
Derbyshire 1,975 26.9 33
Nottinghamshire 1,955 24.7 38
Cleveland 1,915 27.3 31
Hertfordshire 1,900 36.1 6
Leicestershire 1,900 28.4 27
Shropshire 1,855 32.4 12
Buckinghamshire 1,850 41.2 1
Cumbria 1,845 29.6 23
Suffolk 1,820 26.6 34
Bedfordshire 1,815 27.3 31
Lancashire 1,810 29.4 25
Oxfordshire 1,810 29.8 21
Norfolk 1,810 27.8 29
Essex 1,800 30.9 17
Avon 1,800 30.2 19
Hampshire 1,790 32.8 11
Staffordshire 1,790 26.6 34
Warwickshire 1,770 30.9 17
East Sussex 1,765 36.5 5
North Yorkshire 1,760 37.6 4
Humberside 1,760 23.4 39
West Sussex 1,745 39.6 3
Somerset 1,745 31.4 16
Gloucestershire 1,735 34.3 7
Berkshire 1,735 32.4 12
Durham 1,735 26.3 37
Cheshire 1,715 33.3 10
Devon 1,710 29.5 24
Wiltshire 1,700 30.1 20
Cornwall including Scilly 1,690 33.8 8
Northamptonshire 1,685 27.8 29
Surrey 1,675 40.7 2
Northumberland 1,645 33.4 9
Cambridgeshire 1,640 29.8 21
Hereford and Worcester 1,635 32.1 14
Dorset 1,635 31.5 15
Lincolnshire 1,630 26.6 34
Isle of Wight 1,575 28.1 28
Kent 1,570 28.9 26
England 1,855 28.6

Note: Per pupil expenditure figures are derived from LEAs' returns of their spending to the Department for the Environment and their pupil numbers to the Department of Education. Figures are for 1989–90, the latest year for which actual spending information is available. Net institutional expenditure covers spending on salaries and wages, recurrent premises costs, books and equipment, and certain other supplies and services. It excludes spending on LEA administration, home to school transport, school meals and financing costs of capital expenditure.

Number of1 Educational Psychologists (FTE) Percentage2 of National Average Percentage
Barnsley 4.5 32.6
Doncaster 9.0 65.2
Rotherham 10.3 74.6
England 1,505.2