Education Standard Spending Assessment

HC Deb 08 February 1999 vol 325 cc103-6W

Mr. Chope

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will list in respect of each local education authority in England the underlying increase in the provisional education standard spending assessment in 1999–2000 in cash terms, as a percentage, and as a percentage per pupil. [69844]

Ms Estelle Morris

The table sets out the information requested for the education SSAs for 1999–2000, which were finalised on 1 February. Some 85 per cent. of the total is allocated on the basis of pupil numbers with the remainder allocated on the basis of population and resident pupil numbers. This has two main effects in creating local variations around the national increases. First, the percentage increase for a given local authority will generally be higher than the national increase if its pupil numbers have risen more quickly than the national trend. Second, authorities with above average increases in pupil numbers will tend to see their overall education SSA per pupil rise by less than the national average rate because the 15 per cent. of the SSA which is not based on pupil numbers will not rise in line with the pupil numbers, and this has a consequential effect on the year-on-year change in the overall level of education SSA per pupil.

Final Education SSAs for 1999–2000
LEA	Education SSA (£ million)	Change (£ million)	Change (%)	SSA per pupil change (%)
City of London	0.8	0.0	1.7	7.7
Camden	87.4	4.0	4.8	4.7
Greenwich	126.2	6.0	5.0	5.4
Hackney	103.6	5.0	5.0	5.1
Hammersmith and Fulham	63.2	3.4	5.7	4.9
Islington	91.7	4.2	4.7	5.4
Kensington and Chelsea	40.2	2.7	7.1	5.9
Lambeth	111.4	6.9	6.6	5.0
Lewisham	127.5	6.9	5.7	5.1
Southwark	124.2	7.8	6.7	5.4
Tower Hamlets	145.6	8.0	5.9	5.7
Wandsworth	98.2	4.9	5.3	5.0
Westminster	66.8	4.3	6.9	5.4
Barking and Dagenham	84.3	5.2	6.6	4.5
Barnet	135.9	7.4	5.8	4.2
Bexley	105.9	6.0	6.0	4.1
Brent	123.1	5.8	4.9	4.3
Bromley	125.8	7.5	6.3	4.3
Croydon	140.4	8.0	6.1	4.5
Ealing	129.4	7.0	5.7	4.5
Enfield	139.3	8.0	6.1	4.4
Haringey	110.6	7.5	7.2	4.6
Harrow	81.1	3.5	4.5	4.6
Havering	99.0	4.5	4.8	4.3
Hillingdon	107.9	5.6	5.5	4.3
Hounslow	107.1	5.4	5.3	4.7
Kingston upon Thames	53.4	2.7	5.2	4.7
Merton	66.3	3.2	5.1	4.6
Newham	156.6	10.3	7.0	4.3
Redbridge	118.4	8.6	7.9	3.5
Richmond upon Thames	52.5	2.8	5.7	4.2
Sutton	78.8	4.6	6.2	4.2
Waltham Forest	111.1	7.0	6.8	4.1
Birmingham	506.0	23.3	4.8	5.3
Coventry	136.1	6.1	4.7	5.2
Dudley	120.4	6.5	5.7	5.1
Sandwell	136.0	6.4	4.9	5.2
Solihull	88.0	5.5	6.7	4.9
Walsall	124.6	6.8	5.8	5.0
Wolverhampton	111.9	5.7	5.4	5.0
Knowsley	85.2	4.0	5.0	5.3
Liverpool	238.3	9.3	4.1	5.6
St. Helens	76.5	3.0	4.1	4.9
Sefton	122.2	6.1	5.2	4.9
Wirral	148.7	6.8	4.8	4.9
Bolton	117.5	6.0	5.4	5.2
Bury	71.5	3.9	5.8	5.2
Manchester	207.7	9.6	4.9	5.9
Oldham	108.6	5.3	5.1	5.1
Rochdale	96.9	5.1	5.6	5.1
Salford	95.2	4.6	5.1	5.4

Final Education SSAsfor 1999–2000
LEA	Education SSA (£ million)	Change (£ million)	Change (%)	SSA per pupil change (%)
Stockport	104.4	5.5	5.5	5.4
Tameside	95.6	5.4	6.0	5.3
Trafford	91.1	6.5	7.7	5.7
Wigan	125.3	6.3	5.3	5.2
Barnsley	87.4	4.4	5.3	5.3
Doncaster	136.1	6.2	4.7	5.2
Rotherham	116.1	6.6	6.0	4.8
Sheffield	195.0	11.1	6.0	5.1
Bradford	233.8	9.5	4.2	5.0
Calderdale	88.2	5.0	6.0	4.9
Kirklees	164.3	8.3	5.3	5.0
Leeds	292.4	14.8	5.3	5.2
Wakefield	129.0	6.5	5.3	5.1
Gateshead	78.3	3.4	4.6	5.1
Newcastle upon Tyne	111.0	5.0	4.7	5.0
North Tyneside	77.6	3.4	4.6	5.0
South Tyneside	68.8	3.4	5.1	5.2
Sunderland	129.1	5.7	4.6	5.3
Isles of Scilly	1.2	0.0	0.8	7.9
Cambridgeshire	190.0	11.3	6.3	5.2
Cheshire	263.8	13.8	5.5	4.9
Cornwall	189.8	11.1	6.2	5.1
Cumbria	195.5	10.0	5.4	5.1
Devon	243.8	15.9	7.0	4.1
Essex	524.1	29.2	5.9	4.0
Gloucestershire	214.8	12.7	6.3	5.0
Herefordshire	61.1	4.1	7.3	4.3
Worcestershire	198.2	10.9	5.8	3.9
Hertfordshire	446.5	23.6	5.6	4.1
Kent	553.5	29.7	5.7	4.1
Lancashire	468.5	25.3	5.7	5.0
Lincolnshire	250.7	15.3	6.5	4.8
Norfolk	286.5	17.4	6.5	4.8
Northamptonshire	257.8	14.8	6.1	5.0
Northumberland	129.3	6.3	5.2	4.9
Nottinghamshire	296.0	16.4	5.9	4.7
Oxfordshire	217.4	10.2	4.9	4.2
Shropshire	100.8	5.7	6.0	5.1
Somerset	175.6	10.9	6.6	5.2
Suffolk	250.3	14.1	5.9	4.8
Surrey	358.3	21.1	6.3	4.2
Warwickshire	187.6	10.1	5.7	5.2
West Sussex	269.2	15.5	6.1	3.7
North Yorkshire	219.7	13.6	6.6	4.9
Bedfordshire	161.0	7.4	4.8	4.1
Buckinghamshire	193.6	10.4	5.7	3.7
Derbyshire	272.4	15.6	6.1	4.9
Dorset	135.3	9.2	7.3	4.3
Durham	203.4	9.6	4.9	5.1
East Sussex	174.3	10.1	6.2	4.2
Hampshire	446.8	24.9	5.9	4.2
Leicestershire	228.2	13.6	6.3	4.8
Staffordshire	323.1	18.2	6.0	5.0
Wiltshire	159.1	10.1	6.8	4.5
Isle of Wight	53.2	2.6	5.1	4.0
Bath and North East Somerset	62.3	3.3	5.6	4.8
Bristol	134.2	7.0	5.5	5.4
North Somerset	68.0	3.6	5.6	4.9
South Gloucestershire	93.8	6.3	7.2	5.0
Hartlepool	42.6	2.2	5.4	5.1
Middlesbrough	68.5	3.1	4.8	5.2
Redcar and Cleveland	66.2	2.9	4.6	5.3
Stockton-on-Tees	82.1	4.5	5.8	4.9
Kingston-upon-Hull	114.8	5.2	4.8	5.2
East Riding	121.3	7.4	6.5	5.0
North East Lincolnshire	73.0	3.1	4.5	5.3
North Lincolnshire	65.0	3.2	5.2	5.3
York	60.3	3.5	6.1	5.3
Luton	87.6	4.3	5.2	4.3
Milton Keynes	92.7	4.3	4.9	3.9
Derby	96.8	5.3	5.8	5.0
Poole	50.0	3.2	6.9	3.9
Bournemouth	55.8	3.3	6.3	4.2

Final Education SSAsfor 1999–2000
LEA	Education SSA (£ million)	Change (£ million)	Change (%)	SSA per pupil change (%)
Darlington	39.7	2.2	6.0	5.0
Brighton and Hove	82.8	4.9	6.3	4.0
Portsmouth	72.8	4.1	6.0	4.3
Southampton	87.4	5.0	6.1	4.0
Leicester	134.9	5.6	4.3	5.1
Rutland	11.6	0.4	3.8	5.3
Stoke on Trent	99.5	3.9	4.1	5.2
Bracknell Forest	41.6	2.0	5.1	3.9
Windsor and Maidenhead	51.1	2.4	4.8	4.1
West Berkshire	60.9	3.5	6.1	3.8
Reading	48.0	2.7	5.9	4.2
Slough	59.0	3.3	5.9	3.8
Wokingham	58.5	3.0	5.4	3.9
Peterborough	78.9	2.5	3.2	5.0
Halton	59.4	2.5	4.5	5.5
Warrington	78.5	4.6	6.2	4.9
Plymouth	107.7	5.9	5.8	4.0
Torbay	49.9	3.4	7.3	3.9
Southend	68.9	3.9	6.1	3.9
Thurrock	60.5	3.9	6.8	3.8
Medway Towns	118.0	6.0	5.3	4.1
Blackburn	70.7	2.7	4.0	5.5
Blackpool	52.8	3.4	6.9	4.6
Nottingham City	116.7	6.1	5.5	5.1
The Wrekin	66.2	3.9	6.2	5.1
Swindon	73.3	5.7	8.5	4.0
England	20,414.0	1,100.0	5.7	4.7

Notes

1. The cash and percentage change figures take account of local authority changes of function and new arrangements for funding music and student support services.

2. The education SSA per pupil figures have been derived by dividing the 1999–2000 SSA and the adjusted 1998–99 SSA by the total number of pupils aged 4 and over included in the relevant SSA calculations for that financial year.

3. The answer spells out the main reason why variations in the percentage increase in the SSA are negatively correlated with variations in the percentage increase per pupil figures. But an LEA would also receive an above average increase in overall SSA per pupil if:

1. (a)other data on population used in the calculations are increasing, relative to the national trend, while pupil numbers are static; or
2. (b)the growth in pupil numbers is concentrated in the post-16/secondary sectors which attract more SSA credit than younger children because they are more expensive to educate.