Education (Rate-borne Expenditure)

HC Deb 31 July 1972 vol 842 c28W

Mr. Adley

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment what has been the rate-borne per capita expenditure on education, for the last five years, in Somerset, Devon, Gloucestershire, Dorset. Hampshire and Wiltshire.

Mr. Graham Page

The following table shows theper capita expenditure on education of the county councils concerned for the years 1967–68 to 1970–71. Figures for 1971–72 are not yet available: —

Per Capita EXPENDITURE FOR EACH YEAR ON EDUCATION
	1967–68	1966–69	1969–70	1970–71
	£	£	£	£
Devon	24.5	27.1	29.8	33.6
Dorset	27.3	28.6	31.6	35.2
Gloucestershire	31.7	334.	36.6	40.6
Hampshire	26.6	28.0	30.9	34.8
Somerset	27.5	29.2	31.7	35.5
Wiltshire	30.3	31.9	34.3	38.5

This expenditure forms part of the total of rate fund expenditure in respect of which rate support grant is paid, but it is not possible to attribute grant to individual services.