HC Deb 15 March 1993 vol 221 cc18-20W
Mr. French

To ask the Secretary of State for Education what percentage of each education authority's budget is spent on teachers' salaries.

Mr. Forth

The information for 1990–91, the latest year for which information on actual spending is available, is given in the table.

Percentage of teachers' salaries to net recurrent expenditure 1990–91
Per cent.
City 6
Camden 61
Greenwich 53
Hackney 45
Hammersmith 60
Islington 53
Kensington 42
Lambeth 43
Lewisham 50
Southwark 48
Tower Hamlets 49
Wandsworth 48
Westminster 40
Barking 59
Barnet 57
Bexley 55
Brent 45
Bromley 52
Croydon 50
Ealing 44
Enfield 53
Haringey 44
Harrow 50
Havering 58
Hillingdon 48
Hounslow 55
Kingston-upon-Thames 57
Merton 55
Newham 52
Redbridge 52
Richmond-upon-Thames 57
Sutton 51
Waltham Forest 54
Birmingham 56
Coventry 55
Dudley 58
Sandwell 55
Solihull 58
Walsall 55
Wolverhampton 55
Knowsley 49
Liverpool 55
St. Helens 56
Sefton 51
Wirral 53
Bolton 56
Bury 52
Manchester 56
Oldham 57
Rochdale 54
Salford 60
Stockport 54
Tameside 56
Trafford 51
Wigan 61
Barnsley 55
Doncaster 56
Rotherham 60
Sheffield 54
Bradford 56
Calderdale 54
Kirklees 55
Leeds 58
Wakefield 58
Gateshead 55
Newcastle upon Tyne 53
North Tyneside 56

Per cent.
South Tyneside 58
Sunderland 59
Isles of Scilly 43
Avon 53
Bedfordshire 52
Berkshire 52
Buckinghamshire 47
Cambridgeshire 53
Cheshire 51
Cleveland 56
Cornwall 51
Cumbria 54
Derbyshire 54
Devon 54
Dorset 53
Durham 55
East Sussex 53
Essex 54
Gloucestershire 52
Hampshire 54
Herefordshire 56
Hertfordshire 56
Humberside 55
Isle of Wight 51
Kent 56
Lancashire 53
Leicestershire 54
Lincolnshire 53
Norfolk 55
North Yorkshire 53
Northamptonshire 56
Northumberland 55
Nottinghamshire 54
Oxfordshire 49
Shropshire 55
Somerset 54
Staffordshire 56
Suffolk 59
Surrey 53
Warwickshire 54
West Sussex 55
Wiltshire 53

Notes:

1. Figures are derived from local education authorities' returns of their spending to the Department of the Environment.

2. The table shows for each authority teachers salaries as a percentage of the authority's net recurrent expenditure on education.