§ Ms BuckTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what proportion of section 11 funding was spent in each education authority area in England and Wales in 1997–98; and what percentage of pupils were covered by the grant in each case. [63694]
§ Mr. Mike O'BrienThe table relates to the maximum grant payable to each local education authority (LEA) in respect of the 1997–98 financial year, expressed as a percentage of the total maximum grant payable to LEAs. The figures refer to projects for various educational purposes, in schools and in other sectors. The types of project vary between authorities.
Information is not held centrally in the form requested in the second part of my hon. Friend's Question. Reports are received annually on each project, showing the numbers of pupils, or others, covered. But, because support provided to an individual may be separately counted under different headings, aggregation of the figures may produce a misleading result.
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LEA Percentage Barking & Dagenham 0.34 Barnet 1.03 Bedfordshire 0.82 Berkshire 1.08 Bexley 0.15 Birmingham 4.35 Bolton 0.76 Bradford 4.73 Brent 1.47 Brighton & Hove 0.15 Bristol1 0.70 Bromley 0.03 Buckinghamshire2 1.16 Bury 0.39 Calderdale 0.93 Cambridgeshire 1.16
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LEA Percentage Camden 1.82 Cardiff 0.45 Cheshire 0.09 Coventry 2.57 Croydon 1.52 Darlington3 0.15 Derby4 1.41 Devon 0.08 Doncaster 0.11 Dudley 1.02 Ealing 1.51 East Sussex 0.09 Enfield 1.71 Essex 0.03 Gateshead 0.03 Gloucestershire 0.27 Greenwich 1.11 Hackney 2.92 Hammersmith & Fulham 0.55 Hampshire 0.13 Haringey 2.70 Harrow 0.69 Havering 0.05 Hereford & Worcester 0.23 Hertfordshire 1.79 Hillingdon 0.41 Hounslow 1.36 Hull5 0.04 Islington 1.57 Kensington & Chelsea 0.94 Kent 1.28 Kingston 0.11 Kirklees 2.57 Lambeth 2.10 Lancashire 5.02 Leeds 0.96 Leicester 2.63 Leicestershire 0.51 Lewisham 1.37 Lincolnshire 0.09 Liverpool 0.30 Luton 1.78 Manchester 2.40 Merton 0.65 Middlesbrough6 0.55 Newcastle 0.05 Newham 0.12 Newport 0.31 Norfolk 0.16 North East Lincolnshire 0.04 North Lincolnshire 0.23 North Tyneside 0.13 North Yorkshire7 0.06 Northamptonshire 0.58 Nottinghamshire 1.58 Oldham 1.96 Oxfordshire 0.56 Poole8 0.03 Portsmouth 0.18 Redbridge 1.24 Richmond 0.06 Rochdale 1.20 Rotherham 0.39 Salford 0.06 Sheffield 1.51 Shropshire 0.12 Somerset 0.05 South Tyneside 0.13 Southampton 0.39 Southwark 0.82 St Helens 0.02 Staffordshire9 0.89 Stockport 0.09 Suffolk 0.28
LEA Percentage Sunderland 0.10 Surrey 0.33 Sutton 0.09 Swansea 0.32 Swindon10 0.14 Tameside 0.43 Tower Hamlets 6.61 Trafford 0.34 Wakefield 0.29 Walsall 1.46 Waltham Forest 1.66 Wandsworth 1.46 Warwickshire 0.98 West Sussex 0.25 Westminster 1.74 Wigan 0.08 Wolverhampton 1.55 The following show the estimated approximate division of the grant allocated to the lead authority among the LEAs in question:
1Bristol: 93%. Bath&North Somerset, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire: 7%
2Buckinghamshire: 80%. Milton Keynes: 20%.
3Darlington: 60%. Durham: 40 ℅.
4Derby City: 95%. Derbyshire: 5%.
5Hull: 80%. East Riding of Yorkshire: 20%.
6Middlesbrough: 63%. Stockton: 27%. Redcar and Cleveland, and Hartlepool: 10%.
7North Yorkshire: 34%. City of York: 66%.
8Poole, Bournemouth and Dorset: about one third each.
9Staffordshire: 40%. Stoke-on-Trent: 60%.
10Swindon: 60%. Wiltshire: 40%.
Note:
In a number of cases, local education authorities had entered into agreements with neighbouring LEAs to act as the "lead authority" in a joint arrangement for administrative purposes. In these, grant allocations were made to the lead authority, which would distribute funding to each LEA.