§ Mr. RedmondTo ask the Secretary of State for Education when he expects to have available details of the unit cost per pupil in each local education authority for 1991–92 for(a) nursery, (b) primary and (c) secondary pupils.
§ Mr. ForthFigures for expenditure on nursery and primary pupils are not collected separately. The table gives the unit cost for nursery and primary combined, and secondary pupils by local education authority for 1991–92 for those English LEAs that have returned details of their expenditure to the Department of the Environment. The figures are subject to final checking by the Department of the Environment and the Department for Education.
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Unit cost per pupil in each LEA in England 1991–92 (£) Local Education Authority Nursery/ Primary Secondary City 2,595 0 Camden 1,943 2,432 Greenwich 1,830 2,296 Hackney n/a n/a Hammersmith 2,047 2,739 Islington n/a n/a Kensington and Chelsea 2,287 3,200 Lambeth 2,083 2,978 Lewisham 1,717 2,376 Southwark 1,828 2,460 Tower Hamlets 2,253 2,946 Wandsworth 2,174 3,215 Westminster 3,544 2,579 Barking 1,528 2,247 Barnet 1,654 2,295 Bexley 1,372 2,097 Brent 1,573 2,477 Bromley 1,399 2,437 Croydon 1,554 2,356 Ealing 1,754 2,621 Enfield 1,607 2,287 Haringey n/a n/a Harrow 1,646 2,376 Havering 1,375 2,234 Hillingdon 1,597 2,628 Hounslow 1,579 2,168 Kingston upon Thames 1,496 2,447 Merton 1,562 2,676 Newham 1,603 2,433 Redbridge 1,481 2,281 Richmond upon Thames 1,655 2,111 Sutton 1,448 2,221 Waltham Forest 1,603 2,609 Birmingham 1,370 2,151 Coventry 1,380 2,192
Local Education Authority Nursery/Primary Secondary Dudley 1,416 2,137 Sandwell 1,488 2,284 Solihull 1,346 2,109 Walsall n/a n/a Wolverhampton 1,515 2,342 Knowsley 1,435 2,271 Liverpool 1,410 2,387 St. Helens 1,302 2,073 Sefton 1,286 2,021 Wirral 1,312 2,140 Bolton 1,358 2,119 Bury 1,269 1,868 Manchester 1,399 2,293 Oldham 1,535 2,193 Rochdale 1,300 2,137 Salford 1,293 2,183 Stockport 1,334 2,122 Tameside 1,409 2,119 Trafford 1,271 2,113 Wigan 1,242 2,271 Barnsley 1,350 2,047 Doncaster 1,286 1,962 Rotherham 1,473 2,161 Sheffield 1,484 2,228 Bradford 1,628 1,804 Calderdale 1,551 2,001 Kirkless 1,384 2,036 Leeds 1,631 1,979 Wakefield 1,457 2,076 Gateshead 1,573 2,140 Newcastle upon Tyne 1,615 2,028 North Tyneside n/a n/a South Tyneside 1,389 2,088 Sunderland 1,412 2,065 Isles of Scilly n/a n/a Avon 1,410 2,063 Bedfordshire 1,475 2,020 Berkshire 1,480 2,165 Buckinghamshire 1,399 2,160 Cambridgeshire 1,401 2,007 Cheshire 1,329 2,094 Cleveland 1,353 2,221 Cornwall 1,380 1,944 Cumbria 1,443 2,173 Derbyshire 1,411 2,165 Devon 1,376 1,999 Dorset 1,371 1,945 Durham 1,384 2,051 East Sussex 1,388 2,067 Essex 1,324 2,111 Gloucestershire 1,379 1,811 Hampshire 1,395 2,108 Hereford and Worcester 1,446 1,955 Hertfordshire 1,472 2,175 Humberside 1,417 2,082 Isle of Wight 1,447 1,926 Kent n/a n/a Lancashire 1,477 2,168 Leicestershire 1,444 2,210 Lincolnshire 1,330 2,096 Norfolk 1,427 2,104 North Yorkshire 1,381 2,153 Northamptonshire 1,332 1,965 Northumberland 1,455 1,942 Nottinghamshire 1,591 2,482 Oxfordshire 1,574 2,092 Shropshire 1,469 2,332 Somerset 1,322 1,927 Staffordshire 1,384 2,043 Suffolk 1,561 2,016 Surrey 1,486 2,254 Warwickshire 1,277 2,111 West Sussex 1,292 2,156 Wiltshire 1,402 2,017 Notes to tables
1. n/a indicates that returns of expenditure have not yet been 60W received from the local education authority, or that returns are subject to follow-up inquiry.
2. Figures are derived from local education authorities' returns of their net institutional expenditure to the Department of the Environment and of their pupil numbers to the Department for Education.
3. Net institutional expenditure covers the direct costs in schools of salaries and wages, premises and certain supplies and services. It does not include the costs of school meals, home to school transport, local education authority central administration, and financing costs of capital expenditure. Figures include unspent balances held by schools at the year end under local management of schools schemes.