HC Deb 18 February 1954 vol 523 cc238-9W
91. Mr. Crouch

asked the Minister of Education the average cost per pupil per annum in primary schools for the whole country; and what it is for the county of Dorset.

Miss Horsbrugh

On the basis of the revised estimates of authorities for the current financial year, the average cost per pupil in primary schools maintained by local education authorities in England and Wales is about £32. I cannot yet give a separate figure for Dorset for that year, butin 1952–53, when the corresponding figure for England and Wales was about £30, the average cost per pupil in maintained primary schools in Dorset was about £31.