§ Mr. BlunkettTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if she will list, by local education authority, the total amount of balances held by schools in England according to the latest figures. [11747]
§ Mr. Robin SquireThe following table shows the aggregate balances held by the schools maintained by each local education authority in England at the end of the financial year 1994–95.
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LEA School Balances £000 Avon 13,422 Barking and Dagenham 2,681 Barnet 4,763 Barnsley 2,795 Bedfordshire 7,512 Berkshire 8,334 Bexley 1,973 Birmingham 16,319 Bolton 2,416 Bradford 4,084 Brent 4,234 Bromley 3,036 Buckinghamshire 9,030 Bury 2,311 Calderdale 1,975 Cambridgeshire 8,784 Camden 4,737 Cheshire 15,314 City of London 54 Cleveland 8,611 Cornwall 9,007 Coventry 6,643 Croydon 4,905 Cumbria 2,026 Derbyshire 8,467 Devon 9,325 Doncaster 3,751 Dorset 6,635 Dudley 1,207 Durham 7,001 Ealing 2,393 East Sussex 8,218 Enfield 6,026 Essex 25,252 Gateshead 1,859 Gloucestershire 6,743 Greenwich 4,781 Hackney 2,324 Hammersmith and Fulham 2,493 Hampshire 25,921 Haringey 2,896 Harrow 1,693 Havering 4,445 Hereford and Worcester 12,294 Hertfordshire 20,832
LEA School Balances £ Hillingdon 2,297 Hounslow 4,963 Humberside 9,713 Isle of Wight 1,325 Isles of Scilly 43 Islington 3,394 Kensington and Chelsea 1,155 Kent 14,553 Kingston 890 Kirklees 2,825 Knowsley 2,216 Lambeth 5,308 Lancashire 32,096 Leeds 3,892 Leicestershire 13,154 Lewisham 3,921 Lincolnshire 7,178 Liverpool 7,705 Manchester -1,365 Merton 4,503 Newcastle 5,443 Newham 4,640 Norfolk 9,262 North Tyneside 439 North Yorkshire 11,543 Northamptonshire 10,061 Northumberland 3,075 Nottinghamshire 14,959 Oldham 516 Oxfordshire 11,955 Redbridge 3,111 Richmond 2,648 Rochdale 577 Rotherham 1,101 Salford 3,048 Sandwell 5,420 Sefton 6,049 Sheffield 3,619 Shropshire 4,864 Solihull 4,253 Somerset 7,678 South Tyneside 1,898 Southwark 3,852 St. Helens 4,163 Staffordshire 12,381 Stockport 3,456 Suffolk 11,487 Sunderland 1,781 Surrey 12,109 Sutton 2,092 Tameside 1,293 Tower Hamlets 6,733 Trafford 556 Wakefield 3,135 Walsall 2,807 Waltham Forest 3,857 Wandsworth 3,567 Warwickshire 6,987 West Sussex 4,489 Westminster 2,928 Wigan 5,320 Wiltshire 6,549 Wirral 2,572 Wolverhampton 4,036 1. The figures (derived from the LMS outturn statements for 1994–95 published by LEAs under section 42 of the Education Reform Act 1988) cover all county, voluntary and special schools. Prior to 1994–95 special schools were covered by LMS only in the case of 8 LEAs
2. All figures represent surpluses net of deficits.