HC Deb 13 June 2003 vol 406 cc1139-42W
Paddy Tipping

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what estimate he has made of the level of funds held in school balances; and if he will list this, broken down by local education authority. [118614]

Mr. Miliband

[holding answer 12 June 2003]The following table indicates, for each local education authority, the balances carried forward by maintained schools in England at the end of the financial year 2001–02. The figures are taken from the outturn statements for that year produced by local education authorities under section 52 of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998. These figures should not, therefore, be taken as necessarily being representative either of the amounts being carried over at the end of 2002–03 or of the current position. Information on balances carried forward at the end of 2002–03 is not yet available because the deadline for the production of LEAs' outturn statements for that financial year is not until 10 October 2003, and it would be premature at this stage to attempt an estimate.

Balances carried forward by maintained schools at end of financial

year 2001–02

£
Name Balances
Barking and Dagenham 4,067,500
Barnet 6,187,606
Barnsley 6,513,693
Bath and NE Somerset 3,881,082
Bedfordshire 8,078,138
Bexley 3,396,173
Birmingham 32,716,066
Blackburn with Darwen 5,304,593
Blackpool 3,424,694
Bolton 5,158,449
Bournemouth 3,921,711
Bracknell Forest 1,238,194
Bradford 11,801,146
Brent 3,152,281
Brighton and Hove1 3,280,485
Bristol, City of 4,125,008
Bromley 5,482,860
Buckinghamshire 6,073,043
Bury 2,113,007
Calderdale 4,612,605
Cambridgeshire 10,318,395
Camden 6,206,029
Cheshire 15,453,372
City of London 27,398
Cornwall 15,826,332
Coventry 7,812,009
Croydon 11,218,303
Cumbria 8,868,669
Darlington 1,243,908
Derby 5,052,453
Derbyshire 13,628,675
Devon 8,890,468
Doncaster 8,996,732
Dorset 6,492,746
Dudley 8,748,810
Durham 13,958,495
Baling 6,028,172
East Riding of Yorkshire 8,531,194
East Sussex 6,253,009
Enfield 8,124,116
Essex1 37,509,075
Gateshead 4,989,702
Gloucestershire 11,405,925
Greenwich 3,814,303
Hackney 2,069,758
Halton 3,695,867
Hammersmith and Fulham1 3,075,931
Hampshire 29,585,555
Haringey 2,549,177
Harrow 4,551,156
Hartlepool 2,452,725
Havering 5,856,044
Herefordshire 3,474,183
Hertfordshire 28,542,675
Hillingdon 5,344,167
Hounslow 6,722,652
Isle of Wight 1,791,732
Isles of Scilly 176,789
Islington 5,962,389
Kensington and Chelsea 2,708,112
Kent 29,784,014
Kingston upon Hull, City of 4,267,027
Kingston upon Thames 3,461,609
Kirklees 5,225,772
Knowsley 1,974,362
Lambeth 4,886,874
Balances carried forward by maintained schools at end of financial

year 2001–02

£
Name Balances
Lancashire 40,876,279
Leeds 10,506,850
Leicester 7,831,462
Leicestershire 5,205,018
Lewisham 2,868,102
Lincolnshire 9,774,928
Liverpool 17,545,506
Luton 5,338,063
Manchester 15,705,601
Medway 7,172,815
Merton 4,991,839
Middlesbrough 4,188,678
Milton Keynes 6,076,750
Newcastle upon Tyne 6,829,253
Newham 5,027,691
Norfolk 16,721,828
North East Lincolnshire 4,135,223
North Lincolnshire 3,592,146
North Somerset 2,626,826
North Tyneside 1,695,221
North Yorkshire 18,358,924
Northamptonshire 18,483,397
Northumberland 5,030,243
Nottingham 6,574,242
Nottinghamshire 14,135,105
Oldham 6,082,248
Oxfordshire 11,612,527
Peterborough 5,387,880
Plymouth 5,850,136
Poole 4,483,934
Portsmouth 4,108,913
Reading 1,881,661
Redbridge 7,240,831
Redcar and Cleveland 4,066,994
Richmond upon Thames 2,485,233
Rochdale 3,130,795
Rotherham 2,857,044
Rutland 654,276
Salford 2,704,299
Sandwell1 9,153,454
Sefton 10,498,372
Sheffield 5,381,621
Shropshire 3,135,223
Slough 3,195,089
Solihull 3,774,813
Somerset 11,784,110
South Gloucestershire 4,728,949
South Tyneside 4,044,686
Southampton 3,341,094
Southend-on-Sea 6,202,213
Southwark 5,336,153
St. Helens 4,844,669
Staffordshire1 15,950,430
Stockport 4,655,358
Stockton-on-Tees 3,931,321
Stoke-on-Trent1 6,943,772
Suffolk 17,799,002
Sunderland 6,643,454
Surrey 20,403,112

Table 1: The number of applications for undergraduate to secondary teacher training courses
England and Wales England only
Undergraduate 1996/97 1997/98 1998/99 1999/00 2000/01 2001/02 2002/03 2001/02 2002/03
Secondary1
Maths 750 589 389 361 259 251 217 250 213
English and Drama 765 436 663 126 114 79 109 79 109
All Science 640 517 405 342 311 152 128 151 127
All Modern Languages 184 109 86 54 64 37 23 23 7

Balances carried forward by maintained schools at end of financial

year 2001–02

£
Name Balances
Sutton 3,395,341
Swindon 6,204,865
Tameslde 5,661,504
Telford and Wrekin 2,655,872
Thurrock 5,103,666
Torbay 2,133,113
Tower Hamlets 7,825,858
Trafford1 6,352,453
Wakefield 3,718,545
Walsall 8,186,648
Waltham Forest 5,725,045
Wandsworth 5,488,978
Warrington 4,263,356
Warwickshire 7,941,072
West Berkshire 3,394,340
West Sussex 6,847,044
Westminster 1,128,111
Wigan 5,399,480
Wiltshire 8,613,870
Windsor and Maidenhead 2,036,292
Wirral 4,698,670
Wokingham 2,551,820
Wolverhampton 5,158,927
Worcestershire 11,595,511
York 4,565,290
Total1 1,098,316,518
1 These figures, and hence the national total, are provisional.

Note:

The figures, which represent surpluses net of deficits, are taken

from Table 2 of the outturn statements for 2001–02 produced by

local education authorities under section 52 of the School

Standards and Framework Act 1998.