§ Mr. McLoughlinTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how much has been spent on subsidising school meals in Derbyshire in each of the last 10 years. [14200]
§ Ms Estelle MorrisThis information is not collected centrally in the form requested. The following table shows Derbyshire local education authority's total net expenditure on its school catering service from 1986–87 to 1995–96, the latest year for which data are available.
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Derbyshire County Council school catering services—net expenditure Cash terms Year £000s 1986–87 12,432 1987–88 14,525 1988–89 15,759 1989–90 15,064 1990–91 15,312 1991–92 18,695
Derbyshire County Council school catering services—net expenditure Cash terms Year £000s 1992–93 18,319 1993–94 13,908 1994–95 13,456 1995–96 12,698
§ Mr. McLoughlinTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how much has been spent on subsidising school meals in each shire county over the last 10 years, arranging the counties in descending order of expenditure. [14199]
§ Ms Estelle MorrisThis information is not collected centrally in the form requested. The following table shows in descending order each shire county's total net expenditure on its school catering service between 1986–87 and 1995–96, the latest year for which outturn figures are available.
School catering services total net expenditure from 1986–87 to 1995–96 Cash terms LEAs £000s Derbyshire 150,168 Lancashire 132,156 Humberside 129,490 Nottinghamshire1 99,096 Avon 95,627 Cleveland 92,944 Hampshire 88,751 Essex 71,106 Leicestershire 69,166 Devon 65,969 Cheshire 64,996 Staffordshire 64,356 Hertfordshire 63,476 Kent 61,902 Durham 59,873 Norfolk 50,028 Bedfordshire 42,253 East Sussex 40,523 Surrey 39,502 Cambridgeshire 38,877 Cumbria 35,797 North Yorkshire 35,724 Northamptonshire 33,530 Warwickshire 33,349 Oxfordshire 31,499 Wiltshire 31,430 Cornwall 30,757 West Sussex 28,525 Shropshire 28,345 Suffolk2 28,158 Somerset 26,848 Northumberland 24,798 Gloucestershire 23,083 Buckinghamshire 21,712 Berkshire3 17,734 Dorset 17,397 Hereford and Worcester 16,199 Lincolnshire 15,073 Isle of Wight 9,491 1Excludes net expenditure for 1991–92. 2Excludes net expenditure for 1989–90. 3Excludes net expenditure for 1987–88.