§ Mr. PawseyTo ask the Secretary of State for Education if she will list by local education authority the total amount of balances held by schools in England.
§ Mr. Robin SquireFor the financial year ending on 31 March 1994, the following table provides the information requested in respect of all LEAs from whom the Department has received outturn statements prepared for that year under section 42 of the Education Reform Act 1988.
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Total balances in schools—Year ending 31 March 1994 LEA Balance £K Avon 19,624 Barking/Dagenham 1,707 Barnet 4,279 Barnsley 3,046 Bedfordshire 8,297 Berkshire 7,985 Bexley 2,013 Birmingham 16,696 Bolton 2,291 Bradford 5,632 Brent 4,545 Bromley 3,134 Buckinghamshire 5,254 Bury 2,225 Calderdale 2,330 Cambridgeshire 6,585 Camden N/A Cheshire 16,196 City of London 38 Cleveland 8,169 Cornwall 7,241 Coventry 4,802 Croydon N/A Cumbria 2,844 Derbyshire 12,475 Devon 10,340 Doncaster 4,735 Dorset 12,301 Dudley 1,317 Durham 7,799 Ealing 2,971 East Sussex 5,990 Enfield 4,778 Essex 23,612 Gateshead 1,577 Gloucestershire 6,240 Greenwich N/A 645W
Total balances in schools—Year ending 31 March 1994 LEA Balance £K Hackney 2,171 Hammersmith/Fulham 2,366 Hampshire 25,542 Haringey 3,352 Harrow 1,640 Havering 3,544 Hereford/Worcestershire 13,855 Hertfordshire 20,397 Hillingdon 2,231 Hounslow 4,969 Humberside 7,764 Isle of Wight 1,487 Isles of Scilly N/A Islington N/A Kensington/Chelsea 1,386 Kent 11,675 Kingston 774 Kirklees 3,868 Knowsley 2,078 Lambeth 5,325 Lancashire 32,976 Leeds 4,587 Leicestershire 15,750 Lewisham 4,270 Lincolnshire 6,891 Liverpool WA Manchester 3,146 Merton 2,996 Newcastle 4,271 Newham 4,694 Norfolk 9,199 North Tyneside 372 North Yorkshire 11,470 Northamptonshire 10,067 Northumberland 3,667 Nottinghamshire 15,275 Oldham 322 Oxfordshire 11,951 Redbridge 3,247 Richmond 2,440 Rochdale 211 Rotherham 930 Salford 2,456 Sandwell 5,742 Sefton 5,584 Sheffield 5,116 Shropshire N/A Solihull 4,504 Somerset 6,665 South Tyneside 1,861 Soulhwark 3,513 St. Helens 3,941 Staffordshire 9,160 Stockport 2,741 Suffolk 13,500 Sunderland 1,897 Surrey 4,986 Sutton 1,303 Tameside 1,303 Tower Hamlets 8,189 Trafford 1,055 Wakefield 3,643 Walsall 3,594 Waltham Forest N/A Wandsworth 3,228 Warwickshire N/A West Sussex 4,499
Total balances in schools—Year ending 31 March 1994 LEA Balance £K Westminster 3,195 Wigan 4,144 Wiltshire 7,341 Wirral 3,249 Wolverhampton 4,155 Notes to table:
1. The figures, derived from outturn statements prepared by LEAs for 1993–94 cover all county and voluntary schools, and special schools in the case of the eight LEAs whose LMS schemes covered them in 1993–94. They also include the final balances shown in respect of schools which became grant-maintained during the course of the financial year.
2. All figures represent surplusses net of deficits.
3. "N/A" denotes that the LEA's outturn statement has not yet been made available to the Department.