§ Mr. Andrew TurnerTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills in which town each local learning
Local Learning and Skills Council Headquarters Estimated accommodation costs 2001–02 (£) Milton Keynes, Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire Abingdon 323,002 Berkshire Reading 838,510 Surrey Woking 277,595 Kent and Medway West Malling 568,594 Sussex Brighton 512,319 Hampshire and Isle of Wight Fareham (with a satellite office at Newport) 315,627 Cumbria Workington 113,457 Lancashire Preston 206,244 Greater Manchester Manchester 653,217 Greater Merseyside Liverpool 459,512 Cheshire and Warrington Middlewich 174,698 Shropshire Telford 79,725 Staffordshire Stoke-on-Trent 191,818 The Black Country Oldbury 243,183 Birmingham and Solihull Birmingham 343,077 Coventry and Warwickshire Coventry 411,763 Herefordshire and Worcestershire Worcester 218,681 Gloucestershire Gloucester 191,996 Wiltshire and Swindon Swindon 346,451 West of England Bristol 389,939 Somerset Taunton 156,667 Bournemouth, Dorset and Poole Bournemouth 235,090 Devon and Cornwall Plymouth (with a satellite office at Truro) 401,508 Northumberland Cramlington 102,649 Tyne and Wear Gateshead 246,110 County Durham Newton Aycliffe 108,536 Tees Valley Middlesbrough 226,700 North Yorkshire York 166,638 West Yorkshire Bradford 497,038 South Yorkshire Sheffield 294,884 Humberside Hull 222,278 Derbyshire Derby 183,933 Nottinghamshire Nottingham 228,112 Lincolnshire Lincoln 139,598 Leicestershire Leicester 275,107 Northamptonshire Northampton 300,122 Norfolk Norwich 299,536 Cambridgeshire Peterborough 253,971 Suffolk Ipswich 155,001 Bedfordshire and Luton Bedford 153,928 Hertfordshire St. Albans 1,046,283 Essex Chelmsford 433,871 London West Hounslow 806,022 London Central London 785,035 London North Palmers Green 500,260 London East Stratford 751,167 London South Croydon 374,542 Note:
Accommodation costs include annual rent and rates (including rate rebates), annual service charge and property insurance. In some cases final information is not yet available and costs have been estimated.
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Learning and Skills Council