§ Mr. Nigel EvansTo ask the Secretary of State for Education if he will list, in table form, the percentage of each local education authority's budget spent on administration.
§ Mr. ForthThe latest year for which information on actual spending is available is 1990–91. The table shows, for each local education authority in England, expenditure on administration expressed as a percentage of its total net recurrent spending on education.
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Administration as a percentage of net recurrent spending on education LEA Per cent. City 10.2 Camden 12.4 Greenwich 12.1 Hackney 14.4 Hammersmith 13.3 Islington 14.3 Kensington 11.5 Lambeth 9.5 Lewisham 11.3 Southwark 6.9 Tower Hamlets 7.3 Wandsworth 12.5 Westminster 9.9 Barking 7.6 Barnet 5.8 Bexley 7.2 Brent 5.5 Bromley 5.7 Croydon 6.1 Ealing 6.2 Enfield 7.0 Haringey 9.6 267W
LEA Per cent. Harrow 3.0 Havering 6.8 Hillingdon 7.9 Hounslow 5.9 Kingston-upon-Thames 7.0 Merton 7.8 Newham 7.1 Redbridge 5.8 Richmond-upon-Thames 9.4 Sutton 11.5 Waltham Forest 6.7 Birmingham 5.0 Coventry 7.1 Dudley 5.5 Sandwell 4.9 Solihull 4.5 Walsall 4.1 Wolverhampton 5.9 Knowsley 4.2 Liverpool 4.0 St. Helens 6.1 Sefton 5.2 Wirral 3.7 Bolton 6.3 Bury 4.7 Manchester 4.8 Oldham 10.9 Rochdale 3.3 Salford 10.4 Stockport 4.1 Tameside 4.3 Trafford 3.8 Wigan 3.4 Barnsley 4.6 Doncaster 3.5 Rotherham 3.2 Sheffield 4.3 Bradford 4.1 Calderdale 4.8 Kirklees 7.1 Leeds 4.7 Wakefield 3.9 Gateshead 6.1 Newcastle upon Tyne 6.7 North Tyneside 4.3 South Tyneside 4.8 Sunderland 3.3 Avon 5.7 Bedfordshire 4.9 Berkshire 4.6 Buckinghamshire 6.3 Cambridgeshire 6.4 Cheshire 5.1 Cleveland 5.1 Cornwall 5.9 Cumbria 6.4 Derbyshire 4.3 Devon 2.9 Dorset 4.8 Durham 3.0 East Sussex 4.0 Essex 5.3 Gloucestershire 4.9 Hampshire 3.9 Herefordshire 3.9 Hertfordshire 3.7 Humberside 4.1 Isle of Wight 7.6 Kent 5.6 Lancashire 3.4 Leicestershire 3.9 Lincolnshire 5.1 Norfolk 4.8 North Yorkshire 3.8 Northamptonshire 4.5 Northumberland 3.5 Nottinghamshire 4.6 Oxfordshire 6.4
LEA Per cent. Shropshire 3.4 Somerset 4.6 Staffordshire 4.1 Suffolk 4.7 Surrey 6.8 Warwickshire 5.1 West Sussex 4.3 Wiltshire 3.9 Note: Administration includes net recurrent expenditure on administration of the education department, and costs of central departments recharged to education in accordance with the authority's accounting practice. Net recurrent expenditure includes total expenditure other than capital financing charges, less income other than from Government grants. Information is taken from local authorities' returns of their actual spending to the Department of the Environment.