§ Mr. RedmondTo ask the Secretary of State for Education what are the latest available figures for the expenditure per child under seven years by each education authority and grant-maintained schools in England.
§ Mr. ForthAvailable expenditure data cover nursery and primary schools as a whole and cannot be disaggregated between particular age ranges. The table indicates each local education authority's average school-based funding per pupil in nursery and primary schools in 1990–91, the latest year for which information on actual expenditure by LEAs is available. There were no primary grant-maintained schools in 1990–91.
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LEA Net institutional funding per pupil (£) City 1,950 Camden 1,710 Greenwich 1,720 Hackney 1,900 Hammersmith 1,970 Islington 1,770 Kensington 2,060 Lambeth 1,840 Lewisham 1,710 Southwark 1,850 Tower Hamlets 1,940 Wandsworth 1,820 Westminster 2,110 Barking 1,460 Barnet 1,550 Bexley 1,260 Brent 1,670 Bromley 1,410 Croydon 1,440 Ealing 1,690 Enfield 1,430 Haringey 1,840 Harrow 1,480 151W
LEA Net institutional funding per pupil (£) Havering 1,290 Hillingdon 1,540 Hounslow 1,510 Kingston-upon Thames 1,430 Merton 1,750 Newham 1,490 Redbridge 1,350 Richmond-upon Thames 1,530 Sutton 1,360 Waltham Forest 1,570 Birmingham 1,260 Coventry 1,300 Dudley 1,230 Sandwell 1,450 Solihull 1,240 Walsall 1,510 Wolverhampton 1,390 Knowsley 1,390 Liverpool 1,290 St. Helens 1,210 Sefton 1,260 Wirral 1,280 Bolton 1,220 Bury 1,190 Manchester 1,320 Oldham 1,370 Rochdale 1,200 Salford 1,270 Stockport 1,260 Tameside 1,320 Trafford 1,170 Wigan 1,140 Barnsley 1,260 Doncaster 1,250 Rotherham 1,340 Sheffield 1,390 Bradford 1,500 Calderdale 1,440 Kirklees 1,300 Leeds 1,430 Wakefield 1,340 Gateshead 1,390 Newcastle upon Tyne 1,520 North Tyneside 1,310 South Tyneside 1,290 Sunderland 1,280 Avon 1,320 Bedfordshire 1,380 Berkshire 1,340 Buckinghamshire 1,320 Cambridgeshire 1,260 Cheshire 1,260 Cleveland 1,230 Cornwall 1,190 Cumbria 1,340 Derbyshire 1,370 Devon 1,310 Dorset 1,290 Durham 1,370 East Sussex 1,240 Essex 1,240 Gloucestershire 1,200 Hampshire 1,260 Herefordshire 1,360 Hertfordshire 1,340 Humberside 1,280 Isle of Wight 1,250 Kent 1,120 Lancashire 1,310 Leicestershire 1,290 Lincolnshire 1,210 Norfolk 1,280 North Yorkshire 1,230 Northamptonshire 1,230 Northumberland 1,320 Nottinghamshire 1,390
LEA Net institutional funding per pupil (£) Oxfordshire 1,570 Shropshire 1,350 Somerset 1,230 Staffordshire 1,270 Suffolk 1,310 Surrey 1,340 Warwickshire 1,220 West Sussex 1,240 Wiltshire 1,260 Note: Figures are derived from LEAs' returns of their spending to the Department of the Environment and of their pupil numbers to the Department for Education. They include school-based spending on salaries and wages, recurrent premises costs, books, equipment and other supplies and services, and unspent balances held by schools at the year end under local management schemes. They exclude spending on home to school transport, school meals, LEAs' central administration and financing costs of capital expenditure.
§ Mr. RedmondTo ask the Secretary of State for Education if he will make it his policy that all education authorities should receive funding for the education of under-sevens at the same level as Westminister education authority; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. ForthNo. Standard spending assessments, which determine the distribution of grant between authorities, are designed to reflect the varying costs, in different areas, of providing a standard level of service, taking account of different local circumstances.