§ Mr. JenkinsTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how much it cost to educate a pupil in(a) primary and (b) secondary schools in Staffordshire in 2003–04. [173285]
§ Mr. MilibandThe latest date for which this information is available is 2002–03 and is given in the table. The information requested for 2003–04 will not be collected by the Department until October 2004 but I will write to the hon. Member when it is available.
2002–03 Net current expenditure per pupil Primary Education 2,680 Secondary Education 3,270 Notes: 1. The financial data are taken from Staffordshire LEA's Section 52 Outturn Statement submitted to the DfES. 2002–03 data is subject to change by the LEA. Figures are rounded to the nearest £10. 2. The outturn 2002–03 tables captured the data in a fundamentally different way to the previous years. Categories were aligned with the Consistent Financial Reporting framework and the spending by LEAs was no longer split by school sector. Consequently the unit costs per pupil in 2002–03 are not strictly comparable with earlier years as they are calculated differently and include an apportionment of LEA expenditure based on pupil numbers. 3. Net current expenditure (NCE) includes expenditure within schools and also that incurred centrally by the LEA. 4. The NCE per pupil figures for primary relate the net current expenditure (after recharges) in the maintained primary schools to the total number of financial year pupils who are educated in the maintained primary schools sector. 5. The NCE per pupil figures for secondary relate the net current expenditure (after recharges) in maintained secondary schools to the total number of financial year pupils who are educated in the maintained secondary schools sector. 6. Pupil data are drawn from the Annual Schools Census adjusted to be on a financial year basis.