HC Deb 16 June 1972 vol 838 cc412-7W
Mr. Whitlock

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if she will give the results of the Spring 1972 Census on pupil maintenance grants, showing for each local education authority the number of pupils for whom maintenance grants were paid, the proportion these represented of all pupils over the school-leaving age in January, 1970, and the average grant paid, respectively.

Mr. van Straubenzee

The information, which derives from a special inquiry by the Department early in 1971, is as follows:

Local education authority (Column 1) Number of pupils (Column 2) Average amount paid per pupil £ (Column 3) Percentage of all pupils over school-leaving age Per cent
Hampshire 221 72 2.1
Herefordshire 45 54 3.1
Hertfordshire 280 78 2.1
Huntingdon and peterborough 29 82 1.4
Isle of Wight 15 58 1.3
Isles of Scilly
Kent 522 72 3.4
Lancashire 774 67 3.4
Leicestershire 23 31 0.4
Lincolnshire, Holland 17 59 1.5
Lincolnshire, Kestevan 26 52 1.5
Lincolnshire, Lindsey 48 46 1.1
Norfolk 106 68 3.4
Northamptonshire 36 55 1.3
Northumberland 557 83 10.6
Nottinghamshire 33 41 0.5
Oxfordshire 56 67 2.1
Rutland 5 76 2.9
Shropshire (Salop) 26 49 0.7
Somerset 189 52 3.3
Staffordshire 185 59 2.5
Suffolk, East 88 56 4.3
Suffolk, West 225 58 16.6
Surrey 118 87 0.9
Sussex, East 73 123 1.7
Sussex, West 47 81 0.7
Warwickshire 123 64 1.7
Westmorland 23 32 2.4
Wiltshire 186 117 3.3
Worcestershire 87 76 2.0
Yorkshire, East Riding 167 40 5.5
Yorkshire, North Riding 125 64 4.8
Yorkshire, West Riding 1,000 69 5.3
Barnsley 52 64 5.6
Barrow-in-Furness 13 46 1.5
Bath 32 65 3.0
Birkenhead 23 69 2.2
Birmingham 537 91 4.1
Blackburn 28 79 3.5
Blackpool 30 80 2.2
Bolton 83 78 5.6
Bootle 37 66 5.5
Bournemouth 100 59 6.4
Bradford 109 78 3.1
Brighton 87 86 5.6
Bristol 148 67 2.9
Burnley 34 68 3.9
Burton-upon-Trent 25 18 3.0
Bury 18 54 4.0
Canterbury 21 72 2.1
Carlisle 61 99 6.5
Chester 10 100 1.6
Coventry 66 41 1.8
Darlington 56 97 4.9
Derby 32 62 1.8
Dewsbury 44 59 8.7
Doncaster 54 64 4.2
Dudley 19 54 1.2
Eastbourne 5 86 0.9
Exeter 21 53 2.4
Gateshead 57 97 7.3
Gloucester 56 64 3.6
Great Yarmouth 77 64 10.5
Grimsby 44 66 4.0
Halifax 58 66 5.7
Hartlepool 89 96 9.1
Hastings 32 96 4.4
Huddersfield 32 67 2.0

Local education authority (Column 1) Number of pupils (Column 2) Average amount paid per pupil £ (Column 3) Percentage of all pupils over school-leaving age Per cent.
Ipswich 101 71 8.9
Kingston-upon-Hull 302 59 8.5
Leeds 469 51 8.6
Leicester 68 63 2.2
Lincoln 34 61 3.3
Liverpool 534 28 6.6
Luton 30 70 1.6
Manchester 127 117 2.0
Newcastle-upon-Tyne 310 84 12.3
Northampton 18 45 1.5
Norwich 86 58 7.0
Nottingham 102 58 3.4
Oldham 33 61 4.2
Oxford 47 88 4.0
Plymouth 67 41 2.4
Portsmouth 136 83 6.6
Preston 153 60 14.1
Reading 7 61 0.4
Rochdale 42 44 3.8
Rotherham 59 64 6.1
St. Helens 40 62 4.7
Salford 32 71 3.0
Sheffield 212 69 3.7
Solihull 14 58 0.9
Southampton 114 68 3.7
Southend-on-Sea 66 94 2.7
Southport 52 66 5.7
South Shields 108 87 8.8
Stockport 42 55 3.0
Stoke-on-Trent 104 76 4.6
Sunderland 315 79 12.9
Teesside 255 80 5.0
Torbay 46 54 3.9
Tynemouth 74 99 9.3
Wakefield 45 65 10.1
Wallasey 36 74 2.6
Walsall 61 39 2.9
Warley 26 68 1.7
Warrington 25 35 3.7
West Bromwich 29 65 1.8
Wigan 56 62 9.2
Wolverhampton 183 69 5.8
Worcester 8 44 0.8
York 94 56 6.6
Barking 25 98 1.6
Barnet 37 70 0.7
Bexley 66 41 2.4
Brent 53 91 1.6
Bromley 58 85 1.4
Croydon 76 93 1.9
Ealing 97 103 2.8
Enfield 45 84 1.3
Haringey 63 87 2.1
Harrow 182 26 6.2
Havering 26 91 0.7
Hillingdon 19 118 0.6
Hounslow 44 76 1.6
Kingston-upon-Thames 31 90 1.7
Merton 49 78 2.0
Newham 67 74 2.7
Redbridge 33 108 1.3
Richmond-upon-Thames 27 88 1.3
Sutton 29 83 1.4
Waltham Forest 33 73 1.2
Inner London 1,732 97 4.7

Local education authority (Column 1) Number of pupils (Column 2) Average amount paid per pupil £ (Column 3) Percentage of all pupils over school-leaving age Per cent.
Anglesey 56 53 6.8
Breconshire 32 53 3.6
Caernarvonshire 77 65 4.7
Cardiganshire 48 106 4.3
Carmarthenshire 103 42 4.0
Denbighshire 287 36 12.5
Flintshire 22 47 1.0
Glamorgan 711 59 7.5
Merioneth 32 41 5.6
Monmouthshire 302 86 6.8
Montgomeryshire 15 50 2.3
Pembrokeshire 61 59 3.6
Radnorshire 7 37 3.0
Cardiff 70 49 1.7
Merthyr Tydfil 28 21 3.8
Newport (Mon.) 31 49 2.2
Swansea 23 42 1.0