§ Mr. LawsTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, pursuant to her answer of 17 January 2002,Official Report, column 446W, on local education authorities, if she will estimate the repair and renewal costs for each local education authority as a percentage of the education authority's annual budget for the latest available year; if she will rank them to show the highest to the lowest repair and renewal bill as a share of total LEA budget; and if she will make a statement. [31011]
§ Mr. Timms[holding answer 30 January 2002]: The table contains information relating to expenditure on repairs as a percentage of Net Current Expenditure after recharges:
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LEA number LEA name Percentage 357 Tameside 15.12 305 Bromley 9.37 372 Rotherham 6.67 393 South Tyneside 6.34 861 Stoke on Trent 6.05 303 Bexley 5.87 916 Gloucestershire 5.40 302 Barnet 5.27 384 Wakefield 5.17 205 Hammersmith and Fulham 5.05 306 Croydon 4.97 877 Warrington 4.97 812 North East Lincolnshire 4.74 808 Stockton-on-Tees 4.65 301 Barking and Dagenham 4.64 330 Birmingham 4.19 851 Portsmouth 4.19 891 Nottinghamshire 4.13 826 Milton Keynes 4.12 894 Telford and Wrekin 4.11 333 Sandwell 4.09 883 Thurrock 4.04 212 Wandsworth 3.93 929 Northumberland 3.85 806 Middlesbrough 3.71 937 Warwickshire 3.68 810 City of Kingston Upon Hull 3.67 875 Cheshire 3.53 878 Devon 3.52 888 Lancashire 3.33 343 Sefton 3.31 815 North Yorkshire 3.27 871 Slough 3.24 805 Hartlepool 3.23 846 Brighton and Hove 3.17 342 St. Helens 3.13 311 Havering 3.11 837 Bournemouth 3.05 855 Leicestershire 3.03 803 South Gloucestershire 3.03 870 Reading 3.02 831 City of Derby 2.98 800 Bath and North East Somerset 2.97 884 Herefordshire 2.97 919 Hertfordshire 2.97 352 Manchester 2.96 882 Southend 2.95 344 Wirral 2.92 359 Wigan 2.90 928 Northamptonshire 2.88 210 Southwark 2.88 353 Oldham 2.86 925 Lincolnshire 2.83 876 Halton 2.82
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LEA number LEA name Percentage 836 Poole 2.80 840 Durham 2.79 373 Sheffield 2.78 889 Blackburn with Darwen 2.77 319 Sutton 2.74 821 Luton 2.73 825 Buckinghamshire 2.73 304 Brent 2.70 935 Suffolk 2.68 203 Greenwich 2.67 908 Cornwall 2.67 926 Norfolk 2.66 850 Hampshire 2.65 811 East Riding of Yorkshire 2.64 802 North Somerset 2.63 358 Trafford 2.63 381 Calderdale 2.62 845 East Sussex 2.61 356 Stockport 2.60 874 City of Peterborough 2.60 213 City of Westminster 2.57 886 Kent 2.56 318 Richmond Upon Thames 2.56 307 Ealing 2.55 332 Dudley 2.53 380 Bradford 2.52 881 Essex 2.51 852 Southampton 2.49 938 West Sussex 2.48 873 Cambridgeshire 2.44 382 Kirklees 2.43 869 West Berkshire 2.42 892 City of Nottingham 2.39 208 Lambeth 2.39 857 Rutland 2.39 841 Darlington 2.38 390 Gateshead 2.38 909 Cumbria 2.38 313 Hounslow 2.36 816 York 2.36 921 Isle of Wight 2.36 865 Wiltshire 2.35 867 Bracknell Forest 2.35 201 City of London 2.32 308 Enfield 2.31 890 Blackpool 2.31 868 Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead 2.30 872 Wokingham 2.30 341 Liverpool 2.29 391 Newcastle Upon Tyne 2.28 887 Medway 2.27 336 Wolverhampton 2.26 315 Merton 2.25 371 Doncaster 2.24 370 Barnsley 2.24 314 Kingston Upon Thames 2.23 807 Redcar and Cleveland 2.21 355 Salford 2.19 312 Hillingdon 2.17 317 Redbridge 2.17 340 Knowsley 2.15 207 Kensington and Chelsea 2.12 354 Rochdale 2.09 351 Bury 2.07 893 Shropshire 2.06 801 City of Bristol 2.06 835 Dorset 2.04 310 Harrow 2.04 885 Worcestershire 2.03 879 City of Plymouth 2.01 936 Surrey 1.99 202 Camden 1.99 394 Sunderland 1.95
LEA number LEA name Percentage 331 Coventry 1.93 211 Tower Hamlets 1.93 860 Staffordshire 1.92 316 Newham 1.81 856 Leicester City 1.81 206 Islington 1.75 880 Torbay 1.73 309 Haringey 1.72 209 Lewisham 1.68 813 North Lincolnshire 1.64 830 Derbyshire 1.58 334 Solihull 1.48 335 Walsall 1.47 350 Bolton 1.32 420 Isles of Scilly 1.26 933 Somerset 1.21 383 Leeds 1.17 866 Swindon 1.06 931 Oxfordshire 0.90 392 North Tyneside 0.75 204 Hackney 0.43 320 Waltham Forest 0.20 820 Bedfordshire 0.06 Note:
The information is taken from the 1990–2000 section 52 outturn statements completed by local education authorities and returned to the DIES. Total expenditure on non-capital building works (including repairs and maintenance of buildings, and non-capital expenditure on fixed plants and grounds) is a percentage of net current expenditure (NCE) after recharges.